MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Net Llama!]

On 08/08/2005 07:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.
> 

that's only debian.  BTW, i should have mentioned i'm using FC4.

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