Well I installed an FF plugin called MIMEEdit taht maybe can halp you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498

On 8/12/07, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hm i was so like hoping this would solve this annoying issue that the
> "open with" option NEVER has a default application!
> Installed the thing and even rebooted the system ...
> still when i go to a link eg for .mpg file i only get the browse button
> to select the executable for the wished application capable of playing
> those files ....
> And no i don't want to do some download action options...
> all i want is that firefox knows a default application for a certain
> file type (if such app exists on the system naturally).
>
> Hopefully someone knows a solution for this cos it's driving me crazy
> lately
>
> thanks in advanced
>
>
> Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> > I've found today that Firefox depends heavily on /etc/mime.types and
> > or ~/.mime.types (for example, the Download Actions for type handling)
> > and I also found that installing the mime-types package solved some
> > issues related to it (like being able to select what to do with PDF
> > files!!!) that wasn't possible before. So I strongly suggest that
> > Firefox package depend on mime-types package. Anyone agrees, disagrees?
> >
> > Just my 0.02
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >       Rodrigo
> >
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> > windows.
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Abraços,
      Rodrigo

A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open
windows.
                   ~Linus Torvalds
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