MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:

> 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

I poked around in there, but there's nothing that is referencing gedit in
there.  I tried adding an entry that called nedit for the MIME type, but
it was seemingly ignored.

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