Steve Herber wrote: > My problem is how to configure galeon and firefox to use the right helper > applications on my Gentoo computers. For a long time most helper > applications, such as xpdf for PDF files, just worked. But during the > past few months, with the typical gentoo updates, I have lost the ability > to get the right application chosen for the different mime types. It > seems that over time the Linux desktop environment is getting more > complicated than a Windows computer and it seems like a sad state to me. > Either that, or I am missing some simple piece of information.
Isn't it just in Firefox' options dialogue, the tab Applications (fourth from the left). You can choose the program or tell firefox to ask every time which app you want to use. I can't look into it because I'm using windows here, but must be the same in linux IMO. Greets, Dominic
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