Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

[suvayu ali]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:00, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you should investigate that way... you need to register the
> new mime types in the browser, otherwise the browser pops up that
> dialog that says "what app do you want to use to open this extraneous
> thing that the cat just dragged in and I'm opening up for the first
> time"? EVEN if the OS has already a registered mime type...
>
> Once upon a time(Mozilla 1.x days), it was a matter of searching for
> user profile folders and fiddling with user.js, but I'm not sure what
> the right approach would be...

Not everyone uses Firefox. This should be something done on the FF
side by the user (as T.C. mentioned), or by some script while
installation (I have no idea what that could be).

-- 
Suvayu

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