Re: java 6 webstart plugins for firefox?

Karl Auer wrote:

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:01 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I'm not sure, but my guess would be that there's no MIME-type mapping
which associates the javaws from your Java 6 with content of type
application/x-java-jnlp-file.

I guess not! But somewhere this mapping exists for Java 5.

Propably. I'd suspect something in /usr/share/mime or ~/.local/share/mime.

Anyway, this cosmetic issue aside, is there still a *real* problem?

No.

Good.

However, I think cosmetic issues can sometimes be a symptom of a real
problem - in this case that Firefox is doing some secret, undocumented
mappings,

I haven't dug into this too deeply but to me it seems: "undocumented" -
maybe, "secret" - I don't think so. My bet is: firefox simply uses the
MIME-type mappings of the system.

and does not appear to offer any interface to create, remove
or correct such mappings.

Well, it asks you what to to and lets you select the application *you*
prefer.
But it's not firefox' job to let you manipulate the MIME-type mappings
of the system.

Regards
mks

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