thunderbird file associations, where to set ?

[taharka]

How do,

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 22:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird 
> without actually saving it to disk first.
> 
> This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade 
> acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the 
> attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
> Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the 
> association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the 
> thunderbird preferences.
> 
> I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but 
> thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
> 
> Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?

Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
you should be able to set that file association there.

> regards,
> Marcel

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.