rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/9/2 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> What about the horrible behaviour of the "Applications" settings? You have
> to edit the mimeTypes.rdf file by hand, and there's no guarantee the
> changes will stick.
>
> I apt-get'ed a new program yesterday, then tried to open the respective type
> of file from Firefox.  It, surprisingly, suggested the correct application
> in the "open with" dialog.  Great!  I selected the app, and the file opened
> perfectly.  I closed it and tried again, and Firefox told me the
> application didn't exist! - "edit your preferences".  But you _can't_ edit
> your preferences!  So I closed FF, edited the rdf file - fixing a blank
> application filename - and tried again. Again, it worked once, and never
> again.
>
> Hand editing the rdf file, I've been able to make FF3 open mailto: links via
> gmail (a process so slow, you'll forget what you were going to send them),
> but never Kmail.

Could you post a link to the bug on Bugzilla? I'd like to triage that
on a new profile and comment. Thanks.

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