MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> I've been googling for almost a week, and have come up dry.  Does anyone
> know how to control the applications that firefox & thunderbird associate
> with different MIME types?
>
> For example, I get a ton of files in email with a .log suffic which are
> plain text.  Somewhere, somehow, thunderbird is deciding that it should
> use gedit to open/view them, and I hate gedit.  Yet I can't figure out
> where to change/override this behavior.  Anyone know?

Maybe your desktop environment governs what app opens which file?

In Ubuntu par example, there is a "Preferred Applications" control panel
where the default is gedit but you can also pick a custom app instead.


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