firefox not offering the right plugins
Matt Morgan
minxmertzmomo at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 15:42:25 UTC 2005
When I looks at Edit--Preferences--Downloads, I see a list of plugins
that looks like this:
PDF PDF File acroread
Windows WMV File gmplayer
DOC DOC File openoffice.org-1.9
That is what I want, and it reflects what I have set by checking the
"always use this from now on" checkbox, when offered the option.
But when I click on a link for a wmv, firefox offers totem as the
default; when I click on a PDF, it offers kpdf as the default; and
when I click on a DOC it offers oowriter (v 1.1.3) as the default. I
have to go search for the app I really want every time.
So it looks like Firefox is writing to one settings file, but reading
from another. This is Firefox 1.02, installed and updated regularly
via yum. I only noticed the problem pretty recently, maybe in the last
month or two. Maybe it's related to a recent firefox update?
Any suggestions? I tried grepping through ~/.mozilla/firefox for any
files containing "totem," just to see if I could change the list of
helper apps manually, but I couldn't find anything that included totem
in the first place.
Thanks,
Matt
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