changing default application associated with each file extension

Russell Cook bike_oz at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jul 13 08:55:29 UTC 2005


hehe, ain't choice grand. I've really got used to epiphany, and except
for it's lack of popup/ad protection I really like it. On my system it
seems to display pages (even local ones) significantly faster than
firefox.


On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:44 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 07:23 +0900, Jeff Co wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > I use Gnome and Nautilus. How can I change the default application
> > that opens up when I double click a file in Nautilus? For example,
> > html files open up in Firefox, but I would like that to be changed to
> > Galeon. I don't want to bother with having to right click the file,
> > then selecting "Open With..."
> 
> Hi Jeff, I have the same problem too, I prefer Galeon to Firefox...
> 
> Solution : Open Nautilus, find any HTML files. Righ-click on it, and
> select "Properties". Then click on the "Open With..." tab.
> It should give you a list off all the program that are allowed/capable
> of reading HTML files. Select Galeon, click "OK", and you are done ! :o)
> The change takes effect immediately, you don't even need to restart
> Nautilus.
> 
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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