2 questions about firefox I just have to ask.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 17 17:04:07 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:45 +0000, John Austin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 02:58 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:50 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:22 -0800, oldman wrote:
> > > > The only things that will show up in that box are items that were not
> > > > configured with a plug-in. for instance the first time I clicked on a
> > > > .torrent file Firefox asked me what to do with the file ... I selected
> > > > to use azureus and clicked a button to always use azureus and then the
> > > > .torrent was associated with azureus and showed up in that window. I
> > > > have not (yet) found a way to change one that was configured via
> > > > plugin,
> > > > but I suspect that if I removed the plugin and then attempted to click
> > > > on the filetype Firefox would then show me the requester and I could
> > > > then edit the app to use. (don't know what would happen if I
> > > > reinstalled
> > > > the plugin
> > > >
> > > I wish the above was true but it is not. If you remove a plugin firefox
> > > just does not know what to do and with a plugin as I noted in a separate
> > > post it sometimes does the wrong thing.
> >
> > Aaron, which version of Firefox are you using?? Ric
> >
> > --
> > ================================================
> Is this the secret you are looking for ?
>
> Not sure where I found it - this list I think
>
> "In the past, you could tell mozilla how to handle a media file. They
> changed in Firefox, but there's a way to bring that feature back. In
> Firefox, type about:config at the url and find
>
> browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions
>
> Double click on it to set it to false. Then under
> Edit->Preferences->Downloads you should see all the media types and
> (theoretically) you could change the player. I didn't mess with that but
> it might just be the feature we want."
>
> John
That is certainly an appropriate secret with 2 provisos:
1. the about:config under FC4 (version 1.0.8) has no such option.
2. In FC5 and FC6 (verison 1.5.0.9 of firefox) has this entry in
about:config and it does what you indicate. However there is no plugins
tab so one can't choose plugins for audio for example .
Another thing is it makes it obvious that the plugins in the various
plugin directories are not as important as the contents of mozplugerrc.
You helped a great deal but a mystery still remains.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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