thunderbird file associations, where to set ?

[taharka]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:56 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/3/06, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That file doesn't exist on any of my FC boxes.

Nor none of mine. My mistake, I was looking on a Ubuntu system instead
of FC :-(

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