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For some bizarre reason, when I save something in Firefox, such as a picture or PDF, if I double-click the item in the Download Manager it starts OpenOffice Writer to open the file. It's starting to get quite annoying. Does anyone here know how to get the correct programs (Eye of Gnome for pictures, Evince for PDFs, etc) to open the files instead of Writer?
Sandy
Edit > Preferences > Applications would be my guess.
2009/9/14 Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com:
For some bizarre reason, when I save something in Firefox, such as a picture or PDF, if I double-click the item in the Download Manager it starts OpenOffice Writer to open the file. It's starting to get quite annoying. Does anyone here know how to get the correct programs (Eye of Gnome for pictures, Evince for PDFs, etc) to open the files instead of Writer?
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I looked there, but that seems to only apply to actually saving it -- whether Firefox should save the file, or open it in the selected application. I set PDFs, for example, to be always saved. Even if the PDF icon is shown (sometimes it isn't), double-clicking the link will still start Writer.
Sandy
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Bruce Kingsbury zcat@zcat.geek.nz wrote:
Edit > Preferences > Applications would be my guess.
2009/9/14 Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com:
For some bizarre reason, when I save something in Firefox, such as a picture or PDF, if I double-click the item in the Download Manager it starts OpenOffice Writer to open the file. It's starting to get quite annoying. Does anyone here know how to get the correct programs (Eye of Gnome for pictures, Evince for PDFs, etc) to open the files instead of Writer?
Sandy
What happens when you open them off the desktop?
2009/9/14 Leighton Gelling sandwalker@gmail.com:
I looked there, but that seems to only apply to actually saving it -- whether Firefox should save the file, or open it in the selected application. I set PDFs, for example, to be always saved. Even if the PDF icon is shown (sometimes it isn't), double-clicking the link will still start Writer.
Sandy
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Bruce Kingsbury zcat@zcat.geek.nz wrote:
Edit > Preferences > Applications would be my guess.
2009/9/14 Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com:
For some bizarre reason, when I save something in Firefox, such as a picture or PDF, if I double-click the item in the Download Manager it starts OpenOffice Writer to open the file. It's starting to get quite annoying. Does anyone here know how to get the correct programs (Eye of Gnome for pictures, Evince for PDFs, etc) to open the files instead of Writer?
Sandy
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What happens when you open them off the desktop?
That's independent of your desktop configuration, unfortunately, since Firefox keeps its own list of mime types ([1]). Came across the following post in the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5641587&postcount=11
The file $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<random_sequence>.default/mimeTyptes.rdf contains all the mime types: http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf
According to the mozillazine article, the file gets automatically created if missing. So, here's what I'd do: 1. Close Firefox. 2. Rename the mimeTypes.rdf file to mimeTypes.rdf.old 3. Restart Firefox. 4. Test double-clicking on a downloaded PDF in the download manager.
Cheers, Peter
References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_type [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5641587&postcount=11 [3] http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf
They're perfectly fine; it's just opening files from Firefox's Download Manager that has the problem. This is Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko), by the way.
Sandy
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
What happens when you open them off the desktop?
Interesting. I'm starting to get a clearer idea of how FF handles file associations now and it seems a bit odd. Here's how I understand it currently; for links on the web they're handled by FF's own list of actions (ask, download, or launch in this program), for the files already on the download list they're supposed to be 'what the OS would do' if you launched that file from the desktop. But FF needs the firefox-gnome-support package to know what gnome would do.. and otherwise the default action seems to be poorly defined. Why OpenOffice is a bit of a mystery still?
Anyone else got a bit more insight on this?
2009/9/15 Chakat Sandwalker sandwalker@gmail.com:
They're perfectly fine; it's just opening files from Firefox's Download Manager that has the problem. This is Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko), by the way.
Sandy
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
What happens when you open them off the desktop?
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:38:58PM +1200, Leighton Gelling wrote:
I looked there, but that seems to only apply to actually saving it -- whether Firefox should save the file, or open it in the selected application. I set PDFs, for example, to be always saved. Even if the PDF icon is shown (sometimes it isn't), double-clicking the link will still start Writer.
Hi, I don't think I saw which distro you're using, but if it's ubuntu, check that the 'firefox-3.0-gnome-support' package is installed.
John
Aha! I needed the firefox-3.5-gnome-support package installed. Thanks! I've always wondered what that did. Problem solved!
Sandy
John McPherson wrote:
Hi, I don't think I saw which distro you're using, but if it's ubuntu, check that the 'firefox-3.0-gnome-support' package is installed.
John
What happens if you set the Firefox preference to "always ask" for that application? Can you then "re-tell it what to (correctly) do" when you next try to open that file type from the Downloads window?
Cheers, Roger
Leighton Gelling wrote:
I looked there, but that seems to only apply to actually saving it -- whether Firefox should save the file, or open it in the selected application. I set PDFs, for example, to be always saved. Even if the PDF icon is shown (sometimes it isn't), double-clicking the link will still start Writer.
Sandy
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat@zcat.geek.nz mailto:zcat@zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
Edit > Preferences > Applications would be my guess. 2009/9/14 Chakat Sandwalker <sandwalker@gmail.com <mailto:sandwalker@gmail.com>>: > For some bizarre reason, when I save something in Firefox, such as a > picture or PDF, if I double-click the item in the Download Manager it > starts OpenOffice Writer to open the file. It's starting to get quite > annoying. Does anyone here know how to get the correct programs (Eye of > Gnome for pictures, Evince for PDFs, etc) to open the files instead of > Writer? > > Sandy
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