MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Ken Moffat]

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?
>
>  
>
Debian has the "update-alternatives" command; maybe you have it, or
maybe it's debian only.

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ken