Annoying firefox problems

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On 14/10/06, Stephen Brown Jr <stephen.brown75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> for some reason if I try to open my webhosting service's
> panel which is a CGI script, it prompts me to download it instead of opening
> the page after I login. I have to cancel that and refresh the page to get to
> my panel, how do I change that?
Are yo sure its a problem at your end? the site may be falling to send
the correct MIME type.


> Also, how do I set default file handlers? For example, if I try to download
> a bittorrent file it defaults to Democracy player and I would like to use
> Azureus instead.
>
> How do I change these?
I remember reading a long running discussion about this, unfortunately
I have no idea where (I am on this list, ubuntu-uk and 2 lug mailing
lists so it could have been any of them).

If you are wanting to choose based on file type read:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_media_handling_behaviour

if its a protocol you might want to setup read:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol


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