MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Mike Reinehr]

Net Llama,

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:57 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I feel certain that you've already looked for these, but just in case, on my 
Debian 'Sarge' system, I have two files /etc/mime.types and ~/.mime.types 
which appear to provide these system defaults.

HTH's

cmr
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