On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 25/06/07, John Austin <ja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Firefox 2.0.0.3 and F7 > > > > I really would like to know who or what decides how > > the mime type to plugin/application mapping is determined. > > The plugins themselves register with the browser the MIME types they > support. Look up the URL "about:plugins" in Firefox. > > > 2. If a mime type is supported by more than one plugin/application > > how is the download action table determined ? > > > > 3. Is there a secret way of changing the association as the > > FF Change Action GUI does not appear to give you this option ? > > Perhaps you can override some of the behaviour in "about:config". > Many thanks for the reply, I had not looked at about:plugins ... but The about:plugins appears to show the contents of the pluginreg.dat file They are all shown as enabled Also there are more entries in about:plugins than there are in Preferences/File types Management/DownLoad Actions Something must decide which plugin to map from one to the other. John
