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Steve Herber wrote: |
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> My problem is how to configure galeon and firefox to use the right helper |
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> applications on my Gentoo computers. For a long time most helper |
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> applications, such as xpdf for PDF files, just worked. But during the |
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> past few months, with the typical gentoo updates, I have lost the ability |
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> to get the right application chosen for the different mime types. It |
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> seems that over time the Linux desktop environment is getting more |
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> complicated than a Windows computer and it seems like a sad state to me. |
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> Either that, or I am missing some simple piece of information. |
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Isn't it just in Firefox' options dialogue, the tab Applications (fourth |
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from the left). You can choose the program or tell firefox to ask every |
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time which app you want to use. |
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I can't look into it because I'm using windows here, but must be the |
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same in linux IMO. |
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Greets, Dominic |
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