On Apr 1, 2005 4:44 PM, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Apr 1, 2005 11:35 AM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005 11:32 AM, jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Apr 1, 2005 10:42 AM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> 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. That did it! Of course it makes sense that firefox uses my gnome defaults, although it seems like a bug that it would show some other setting that it then ignores. In any case, I'm happy now. Thanks to everyone for the help.
