thunderbird file associations, where to set ?

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 21:56:43 UTC 2006


On 11/3/06, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> How do,
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 22:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird
> > without actually saving it to disk first.
> >
> > This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade
> > acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the
> > attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
> > Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the
> > association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the
> > thunderbird preferences.
> >
> > I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but
> > thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?
>
> Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
> you should be able to set that file association there.

That file doesn't exist on any of my FC boxes.


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