firefox: change a default app

extrasolar · 09-23-2006, 12:47 PM

Firefox keeps opening MPlayer for pls files but I want it to open xmms. How do I do this?

I'm using Gnome and Firefox 1.5.0.6

Thanks.

Brian1 · 09-23-2006, 01:06 PM

Easiest is to install the extension to have a helper window. Check this one out. http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index...=179&hl=helper
It will create an option in Tools called MimeTypes

Brian1

David the H. · 09-23-2006, 01:09 PM

In the Firefox preferences, go to the downloads section, click on the download actions button, and find the entry that corresponds to the file types that you want to change. Double-click on that and you should be able to set them up for the program you want.

extrasolar · 09-23-2006, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

Easiest is to install the extension to have a helper window. Check this one out. http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index...=179&hl=helper
It will create an option in Tools called MimeTypes

Brian1

Cheers. I'll check it out. edit: I've installed it and it has done the trick.

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

In the Firefox preferences, go to the downloads section, click on the download actions button, and find the entry that corresponds to the file types that you want to change. Double-click on that and you should be able to set them up for the program you want.

There are no entries in the actions dialog. I've already checked but thanks for the advice.

noranthon · 09-29-2006, 05:05 AM

Thanks for the information about the extension.

Download actions are not all shown in the "download actions" part of preferences. To dispose of one I had set, I had to delete (rename) the file mimeTypes.rdf in the profile folder.

I was referred to a page in the knowledge base which mentioned some settings in about:config but my Firefox does not have those settings.

jonr · 12-07-2006, 09:09 AM

Extrasolar, that extension provides exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the link! Now if only Mozilla would incorporate that in Firefox. (No, I'm not going to go to Mozilla and suggest it. That's another story.)

figfighter · 01-03-2007, 04:04 AM

I want to set Amarok as my default player for .pls files. I'm using Firefox with PCLinux. Currently Kaffeine is the default and I don't even know where to browse to find Amarok!

When I went to the download preferences there are NO download actions listed. no file types, no programs.... NOTHING!!

please help....

kjones · 02-19-2007, 08:16 PM

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Easiest is to install the extension to have a helper window. Check this one out. http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index...=179&hl=helper
It will create an option in Tools called MimeTypes

I am running Fedora Core 6 with firefox 5.0.9.
I do the above URL and right click on INSTALL. All that happens is I am allowed to download the .xpi file. How do I install a firefox extension once the .xpi is inside my machine?

kjones

extrasolar · 02-20-2007, 11:31 AM

Use the MR Tech local install extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/421/

kjones · 02-20-2007, 07:47 PM

Thank you extrasolar. With the help of your 'MR Tech' extension I now have the 'helper' extension installed. I am not certain that it does what I thought it would do, but that is a subject for another time..