[PLUG] Firefox and PDF -- again lost path to xpdf

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> Firefox seems to default to your mailcap settings (~/.mailcap, /etc/mailcap), 
> so you can set things there, if you'd like:
>
>  echo "application/pdf; xpdf %s" >> ~/.mailcap

Paul,

   Thanks. There sure is a lot of cruft in that file that's accumulated over
the years. Sheesh! For whatever reason, I never looked in there to see just
what it was or why it was.

> Otherwise, once you get to the "What should Firefox do with this file?" 
> dialog box, enter xpdf and then click the "Do this automatically for files 
> like this from now on" button.

   Hmmm. Don't recall noticing that option. Then again, I'm not looking too
closely when I'm on the hunt for something else.

> If you're up for some serious spelunking, check out the mimeTypes.rdf file
> buried in your ~/.mozilla/firefox directory tree.

   This will need to wait until I have more batteries for the headlamp and
lots of rope.

Rich

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