how to make Firefox use a program on a particular extension

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 16 23:43:57 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 14:44 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Saturday April 16 2005 2:18 am, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> > On 4/15/05, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday April 15 2005 7:13 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > > I've got Kaffeine running on top of mplayer with the WM codecs to play
> > > > .wmv video files. BUT, every time I click on one from within Firefox,
> > > > it pops up a dialogue asking if I want to use Totem.
> > >
> > > I add - I have gone and selected Kaffeine from /usr/bin a dozen times,
> > > and each time I have clicked on the 'Do this automatically for files like
> > > this button' - so again - is there some other place that this file has to
> > > be associated for this to stick? Or this a broken feature? I'm in the
> > > video production business, so for me, this is not an entertainment
> > > question...
> >
> > Have you tried changing your GNOME preferences? I believe that's where
> > firfox looks for file associations.
> >
> Gustavo: I searched Gnome prefs but couldn't find any place to map file 
> extensions. There was a simple file association window that let me pick my 
> browser and text editor, and a couple of other things, but I couldn't find 
> anything else.
> I'm beginning to think that the problem is partly this Firefox issue, and 
> partly something else - it would appear that some WM files do play correctly. 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
> 

Claude,

Do you have mzplugger installed.  If not you might want to take a look
at it.  If so then some adjustments to /etc/mozpluggerrc could be in
order.  Type about:plugins for the URL in Firefox.

Bob...




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