MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Collins Richey]

On 8/8/05, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> 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 haven't dug into it much, but there is a mime types extension (or
plugin, don't remember which). Look it up in the Mozilla sites.

-- 
Collins Richey
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