For a long time I have been having trouble with having firefox recognized programs to handle files of a specific type or with plugins. I finally tried to read the help description. What I am having trouble with is the Download Preferences Window. For the file type window the Help text says: This list contains file types that you have downloaded. You can choose what Firefox should do when clicking on a specific file type. Select the file type you want to modify and click the Change Action... button. I have never seen any contents displayed in the File Type window and have not the slightest idea how you get anything to display . How do you do that? Further the Plugins window. Those displayed have no relation to what is in /usr/lib/firefox.x.x/plugins so I ma not sure where the ones I see come from, nor how to get the right ones displayed. And none of this has anything to do with what is displayed in the about:plugins web address. How does one deal with plugins in an organized way? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>