firefox and helper applications.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:44:47PM -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > > Look in the "Downloads" tab of the preferences.
> > In the window that opens there is one option that seems relevant. Under
> > file types there is a statement that the associated action will be
> > performed on the following file types. However this window is empty
> > and cannot be written to. The only thing I can do is click on the
> [...]
> > What am I missing that I should see?
> 
> If you try to download a file of a given type, a dialog box will pop up
> asking you what you want to do with it. If you pick "do this automatically
> for files like this from now on", the file type will then show up in the
> preferences window.
I know you can do that but to me that way of doing things is
non-functional compared to the way mozilla and previous browsers allowed one to
do this. It is one of several ways that firefox has driven us
backwards.


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