MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Gary Sublett]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:17:45 -0500 (EST)
Lonni J Friedman <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Don't know where this is configured but the following should get
it changed:

nautilus --no-desktop --browser    (so it won't mess with xfce desktop)
right click on a .log file
select Properties
Open With

-
Gary