Does anyone know how to change the helper applications in Firefox on the N810 ? On my desktop, it's gotten slightly messy since Netsscape 2 but Firefox still reads standard /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap and uses those, even if it does have an XML/RDF file in preferences.. On the tablet, strace shows the browser reading these files but it ignores the contents. I found it reading /etc/gnome/defaults.list. If I add an entry to use "mplayer", it doesn't work. However, if I copy /usr/share/applications/hildon/mplayer.desktop to /usr/share/applications/hildon/hildon-mplayer.desktop, then the browser will start mplayer with the graphical interface. But it doesn't have open the file or URL. On my desktop, I had been playing with streaming and playlists; to get this to work, I had to create a script to parse video/quicktime files to see if they were playlists (with an RTSP URL), or actual media - they have the same MIME type. Other types such as MPEG and MP3 usually have a different MIME type for the playlist or redirector, so I can launch mplayer directly: video/x-mpegurl;mplayer -playlist %s; video/x-ms-wvx;mplayer -playlist %s; video/x-ms-wmv;mplayer %s video/x-msvideo;mplayer %s etc. I'm not sure such a thing would even work on the tablet; it looks like all helpers have to be fully hildonized so an intermediate script will not work. (mplayer is more efficient than Nokia's media player - it will play larger formats without skipping, and it has more codecs so will play some AVIs and MPEGs that the Nokia one won't) - is there Plugger or equivalent for the tablets ? Generally I find it easier to use helpers from a link as often pages with embedded objects assume you have the standard Windows plugin with some particular size, interface etc. but on occasion Plugger has worked for me. The other thing I had wanted to do was run different profiles - one for connecting via a cellphone (no images), and one via WiFi. And maybe one via open WiFi (tunnel though SSH to a proxy elsewhere) as I do on my laptop. But "browser -P" does not work. I found /home/user/.browser which I might be able to tweak to change the image settings. Proxy settings are tweakable via "about:config" though I haven't got an equivalent to profile changing yet. Andrew Daviel _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
