how to make Firefox use a program on a particular extension

[Gustavo Seabra]

On 4/15/05, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Friday April 15 2005 7:13 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> > I've got Kaffeine running on top of mplayer with the WM codecs to play .wmv
> > video files. BUT, every time I click on one from within Firefox, it pops up
> > a dialogue asking if I want to use Totem.
> 
> I add - I have gone and selected Kaffeine from /usr/bin a dozen times, and
> each time I have clicked on the 'Do this automatically for files like this
> button' - so again - is there some other place that this file has to be
> associated for this to stick? Or this a broken feature? I'm in the video
> production business, so for me, this is not an entertainment question...
> 

Have you tried changing your GNOME preferences? I believe that's where
firfox looks for file associations.

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