Thursday, December 18, 2008

Linux, Firefox and MIMETYPES!

One of the kind folks in #kde pointed me to my now Original Source of this short HowTo.

To make Firefox work with any and all mimetypes, regardless of KDE 4, 3.5, Gnome or anything else that supports xdg-open, follow these very simple instructions:

Locate xdg-open on your system:
1) Open a terminal
2) Type in: which xdg-open
3) Copy that location (or remember it)
Hint: In any *Buntu distro, it's located at /usr/bin/xdg-open

Now in Firefox:
1) Open up Firefox
2) Download something random (Save to File)
3) Open the file via Firefox's download manager
4) Tick the "Remember This Association for All Files" box, and click "Choose"
5) In the location bar, paste in (or type in) the path you got earlier
In the case of Kubuntu, that's /usr/bin/xdg-open

That's it, every file should open properly without any extra dialogs, files, dirty hacks, etc. Thanks a load TerminalDigit and Frederik :D

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