File associations, firefox

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 03:19 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > Yeeees - except that I still can't delete anything and (much more
> > importantly) I still can't ADD anything! I want Firefox to
> > run /usr/bin/javaws when I click on a file with a ".jnlp" extension.
> 
> Erm - are we on the same page? "Download Actions - Remove Action - Change
> Action " 

Yes, we are on the same page. Try it - can you add a new item to the
list displayed? If you can, please tell me how, click by click, because
if it IS possible, it is highly non-obvious to me.

During my experimentation I change the setting for PDF from "use this
plugin/AcroRead 7.0" to "run this program/acroread", and now PDF is not
in the list any more - and I have no way to add it.

> to get a choice is to delete all the options - then whenever you click on
> something you should get a choice, and be able to specify what you want.

The choices I get are download and open with. That's it. No plugins on
offer.

> This is a bit of a pain though.  You can try it with a new profile of FF
> so that you don't break anything important:

That's a good tip, thanks.

> observation. I will note your name, and ensure that I make no attempt to
> answer your questions in future ;-P

Now now, there WAS a smiley :-)

Regards, K.

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