MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 08 August 2005 11:12 am, someone claiming to be 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?

mebbe the mimeTypes.rdf file, in your profile's root directory:
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.<something>/mimeTypes.rdf 

HTH, 
Tim

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