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Henri_de_Solages_356 : Incident created (04/07/08 04:04 AM) - Hello. How to change the default auxiliary softwares (plugins ?) used by Mozilla Firefox ? I'd like it to use KPDF instead of Acrobat reader, Kaffeine instead of the default video player plugin (which can't read my mpeg file for a reason I don't know).
JoesCat2_909 : Reply received (04/07/08 08:57 AM) - If you are using KDE desktop, go to menu and select the submenu program: Menu->Tools->"System Tools"->"KDE Control Centre" When the program begins, go to the left side of program screen and select: "KDE Components"->"File Associations" For a *.pdf file, I would suggest looking in application->pdf The above should change your settings on a per-user basis so your settings will not affect other users settings. If you want to do the change as a system-wide default change for all users, you will need to use "Configure Your Computer" located in the menu as: Menu->Tools->"System Tools"->"Configure Your Computer" If the program you need is not listed in the choices possible and you need to find the directory path to a particular program, you may find some programs by using the which command (using the Console command-line), for example which kpdf will return /usr/bin/kpdf
Henri_de_Solages_356 : More info requested (04/07/08 04:44 PM) - Thank you for your quick answer. These file associations seem to be the ones used by Konqueror, but are clearly not the ones Mozilla Firefox uses. Regards.
JoesCat2_909 : More info requested (05/07/08 05:02 AM) - I submitted your problem as a "bug" to Firefox/Mozilla. Please search for bug "Bug 443686 &#8211; Preferences->Content->Manage file types has no choice selection, cannot choose kpdf instead of adobe 8 as default download plugin action" on website bugzilla.mozilla.org/ I suggest adding yourself as a CC or additional person with this bug. This may already be a duplicate bug or possibly a bug that is already fixed for a future version of FireFox, but I don't know. For your problem, I'll indicate that if you wish to use Opera 9.51, you can follow these steps. Opera: Select the pull-down menu. Tools->Preferences Then select: Advanced TAB (top row), then select Downloads (on left column). in the window, select application/pdf and you want to "Edit.." for a different action. You have several buttons to choose from: 1)Show download dialogue <- choose this one (adobe has it as 6 below) 2)Open with Opera 3)Save to disc 4)Open with default application 5)Open with other application 6)Use plug-in (Adobe Reader 8.0) <- was this, but choose 1 above Choosing the 1st button above allows you to select either Kpdf or Adobe or 1 of several other choices. (Do not click the Remeber choice button). Opera appears to work somewhat okay. ---------------------- With Firefox, there did not appear to be an easy solution, but here is an ugly workaround that may help until a proper fix is figured-out. 1)Open up a console. 2)cd ~/.mozilla/firefox 3)ls (you will want to cd to the directory named ?????.default 4)cd ?????.default 5)ls You should see a file named mimeTypes.rdf and make a backup 6)cp mimeTypes.rdf mimeTypes.rdf.bak Now edit the file, use the attached info (see attachment) 7)kwrite mimeType.rdf Now test it out on a website containing a pdf, try google 6811 pdf and you should find a pdf file for a 6811 chip. when you click the link, Firefox should ask, do you want to open it with Adobe or Kpdf Hope this helps, unfortunately, can't help much more than this.	Attachment