Re: Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 14:34, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:24, Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 21.07.2010 12:06, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>>> Firefox used evince before I installed gimp, so it must be picking up
>>>> available applications from somewhere, right?
>>>>
>>>> It also seems to pick up much more than just the name of the executable, since
>>>> it displays the choice "GNU Image Manipulation Program (d..." in the dialogue.
>>> If you're talking about the dialogue I'm thinking of ("What should
>>> Firefox do with this file?"), you can choose "Other..." and browse for
>>> an executable of your choice.
>>
>> Sure I can, but I'm curious of how firefox picked up evince to begin
>> with, and then picked gimp instead, and why is evince not available as
>> an option any more?
>> Is that really only configurable by browsing around for executable
>> files if I'm unhappy with the default choice?
>
> If you were on this list from a long time, then you probably know that
> even I'd started a thread about a similar issue. It was about file
> associations with firefox & thunderbird. Ultimate solution is to use
> their inbuilt settings- that was what suggested to me.

How amazingly irritating!

/M

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