Re: Back Firefox! Back!

From: James Wilkinson (james_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/18/04

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    Jonathan Berry wrote:
    > If you are running Gnome, Menu->Preferences->More
    > Preferences->Prefered Applications should allow you to change the
    > default browser. Don't know about KDE. Strange that .rpms seem to be
    > associated with RealPlayer... You should be able to change that in
    > the FireFox Preferences on the Downloads screen.

    Or not: surely Firefox picks up on the MIME type supplied? And that
    should be provided by the (remote) HTTP server: if that's misconfigured
    to label RPMS as Real Player files, that's what Firefox will get told.

    James.

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