-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Konstam wrote: > For a long time I have been having trouble with having firefox > recognized programs to handle files of a specific type or with plugins. > I finally tried to read the help description. What I am having trouble > with is the Download Preferences Window. > I'm not exactly an expert, but I'll share what I've found! > For the file type window the Help text says: > This list contains file types that you have downloaded. You can choose > what Firefox should do when clicking on a specific file type. Select the > file type you want to modify and click the Change Action... button. > > I have never seen any contents displayed in the File Type window and > have not the slightest idea how you get anything to display . How do you > do that? The only things that will show up in that box are items that were not configured with a plug-in. for instance the first time I clicked on a .torrent file Firefox asked me what to do with the file ... I selected to use azureus and clicked a button to always use azureus and then the .torrent was associated with azureus and showed up in that window. I have not (yet) found a way to change one that was configured via plugin, but I suspect that if I removed the plugin and then attempted to click on the filetype Firefox would then show me the requester and I could then edit the app to use. (don't know what would happen if I reinstalled the plugin > Further the Plugins window. Those displayed have no relation to what is > in /usr/lib/firefox.x.x/plugins so I ma not sure where the ones I see > come from, nor how to get the right ones displayed. And none of this has > anything to do with what is displayed in the about:plugins web address. > How does one deal with plugins in an organized way? There are many places that your plugins can reside. in your home directory there is a .mozilla/Firefox/plugins (I think or something close to that) there is a /usr/mozilla/plugins (I think the mplayerplug-in goes there) then in each and every old and new version of /usr/lib/Firefox.1.5.0*/plugins. and yes no matter which of these has a plugin (old or new) Firefox will find it. hth Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFrPvg5mBKdb7VQEcRAnCeAJ9yT8UIrb5KgGRHNN4weTMClI9t6QCghlIZ wncQjA4onDfxBBs9kmJbUEc= =i3iG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
