MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Net Llama!]

On 08/09/2005 05:35 AM, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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. 

yes, i'm sure.  in ~/.thunderbird/eroing90834/mimeTypes.rdf.  i'm 
guessing what i really need is a FC4 specific setting, since firefox & 
thunderbird have to be getting the defaults from somewhere, and that 
somewhere isn't in mimeTypes.rdf.

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