[xubuntu-users] Fix for Firefox 3 app association problem

[Vincent]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:44 AM, David Collins <db.collins at yahoo.com.au>wrote:

>  Xubuntu users,
>
> Like me, you might have been putting up with the problem in Firefox 3 with
> opening .jpg files from web-mail, and other file types having no associated
> program, although the assocation is defined in Thunar.
>
> The fix is easy - when you know how - install *firefox-gnome-support*.
>
> Seems to me it is only a problem in Xubuntu and Kubuntu, not Ubuntu.
>
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=792165
>
> After installing this package, my Firefox application list is no longer
> empty, and when I click on a jpg file, it asks to open it with the default
> application that I have previously chosen.
>
> Regards,
> David Collins
>
>
I'm installing it right now, thanks! It was getting tiresome to have to
select exo-open for each file...

I'm forwarding this to the xubuntu-devel mailinglist as this might be
considered for installation by default :)

Thanks,
-- 
Vincent
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