firefox not offering the right plugins

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Apr 1, 2005 11:35 AM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 11:32 AM, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 1, 2005 10:42 AM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > When I looks at Edit--Preferences--Downloads, I see a list of plugins
> > > that looks like this:
> > >
> > > PDF     PDF File                    acroread
> > >             Windows WMV File        gmplayer
> > > DOC     DOC File                   openoffice.org-1.9
> > >
> > > That is what I want, and it reflects what I have set by checking the
> > > "always use this from now on" checkbox, when offered the option.
> > >
> > > But when I click on a link for a wmv, firefox offers totem as the
> > > default; when I click on a PDF, it offers kpdf as the default; and
> > > when I click on a DOC it offers oowriter (v 1.1.3) as the default. I
> > > have to go search for the app I really want every time.
> > >
> > > So it looks like Firefox is writing to one settings file, but reading
> > > from another. This is Firefox 1.02, installed and updated regularly
> > > via yum. I only noticed the problem pretty recently, maybe in the last
> > > month or two. Maybe it's related to a recent firefox update?
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? I tried grepping through ~/.mozilla/firefox for any
> > > files containing "totem," just to see if I could change the list of
> > > helper apps manually, but I couldn't find anything that included totem
> > > in the first place.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matt
> > >

I might be completely wrong here, but I'd check the global settings
for Gnome. I think it's likely that that's where Firefox is looking.


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