MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, A. Khattri wrote:
> 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.

I'm using XFCE, there are no such controls in XFCE.  Also, I see the same
behavior in Gnome.

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