MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 08 August 2005 2:41 pm, someone claiming to be Lonni J Friedman 
wrote:
> 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.

Pardon the stupid question, but are you sure you are editing t-bird's 
mimeTypes.rdf file? The profile for t-bird should be different from 
firefox's. Additionally, the editing should be done while t-bird is not 
running, of course. 

Unfortunately, I don't have t-bird installed, so I can't test...

Regards, 
Tim

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