Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread _saiko
it doesn't add anything to the content-manage but it does change the mimeTypes.rdf file in profile shouldn't content-manage also search in mimeTypes.rdf file ? Scott Horowitz wrote: > On 8/13/07, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sadly next time when i try to open the same link there's ag

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread _saiko
Well indeed firefox remembers the app i selected as the handler manually the first time but here it doesn't appear under content-manage. Also, when i close the opened content and want to open it via Download history Open option nothing happens! Btw on my testing installation (arch 0.8 voodoo) th

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread _saiko
no i'm not using gnome-vfs as i'm using Xfce Jan de Groot wrote: > Firefox utilizes Gnome-VFS when available, so I guess that's where your > file associations come from then. > > > ___ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://archlinux.org/mailm

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread Rodrigo Coacci
On 8/13/07, Scott Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/13/07, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sadly next time when i try to open the same link there's again the > > browse button and no handler app availlable > > This happens here too. But you can still click the "OK" button, even > t

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread Scott Horowitz
On 8/13/07, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sadly next time when i try to open the same link there's again the > browse button and no handler app availlable This happens here too. But you can still click the "OK" button, even though the app name isn't appearing, and it will work. Firefox is in

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:29 +0200, _saiko wrote: > thx this really helped! > > but something obviously isn't working as supposed here. > when i go to a link that has let's say .mpg extension here's what opens: > http://pub.insanity.in/img/scrshot/download1.png > > then i go and use the browse bu

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/13/07, _saiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thx this really helped! > > but something obviously isn't working as supposed here. > when i go to a link that has let's say .mpg extension here's what opens: > http://pub.insanity.in/img/scrshot/download1.png > > then i go and use the browse button t

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-13 Thread _saiko
thx this really helped! but something obviously isn't working as supposed here. when i go to a link that has let's say .mpg extension here's what opens: http://pub.insanity.in/img/scrshot/download1.png then i go and use the browse button to find the handler app binary and immediately after i fin

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-12 Thread Rodrigo Coacci
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! >

Re: [arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-12 Thread _saiko
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 applicatio

[arch] Firefox and mime-types

2007-08-11 Thread Rodrigo Coacci
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 p