Firefox - gedit is the best!

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Oct 28 15:35:14 UTC 2013


Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> Why, Firefox on Fedora 19 wants to open all different sort of files of
> well known types with gedit? It's ridiculous that torrent files, zip and
> gz archives and even doc file are suggested to be opened with gedit.
>
> Creating new FF profile doesn't resolve this issue. Is it that hard to
> recognize file type and open it with correct application?
>
> Now, you can slaughter me but Firefox on Windows suggests apps correctly
> so it's more likely Fedora related bug.
>
> Any way to fix it?

Open Firefox Preferences. Click on "Applications".


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