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Originally posted by pit1516
1) the MIME-types / file associations from the KDE control center do not work - for example, i have .pls-files associated with xmms, but i do not even get xmms as an option in firefox's "open with"-dialogue (well, actually i don't get ANY options in the "open with"-dialogue no matter WHAT file type i try to open). strangely, everything works just fine in konqueror !

There is nothing strange about that.
Firefox doesn't use the KDE MIME type association registry but its own.

Cheers,
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Originally posted by pit1516

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Originally posted by anda_skoa
There is nothing strange about that.
Firefox doesn't use the KDE MIME type association registry but its own.

and is there any way to change that ?

No idea, you should really ask Firefox related questions on a Firefoc forum.

Maybe it has an extension for that

Cheers,
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For what it is worth, here is how I fixed the problem of Firefox "Open Containing Folder" either opening Nautilus or nothing at all, rather than Konqueror.

Firefox uses mime types and .desktop files that should be compatible with Gnome and KDE. The directory where this happens is /usr/share/applications.

However, Firefox appears to use a mime type of x-directory/gnome-default-handler for opening directories. This is only supported by nautilus-folder-handler.desktop (on Ubuntu - on FC5 its called gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop).

There are a couple of things required to make this launch konqueror.

Add the x-directory/gnome-default-handler to the mimetype field in kde/kfmclient_dir.desktop.
Remove the OnlyShowIn=KDE line if there is one (there is on FC5, not on ubuntu).

Next run "update-desktop-database" as root.

The mimeinfo.cache file should now show kde-kfmclient_dir as a handler for x-directory/gnome-default-handler.

However, it gets tricky. The order that the handlers appear is important - firefox only looks at the first in the list. But to get to be first in the list, the .desktop file must be later in directory order - i.e. the order shown by ls -U.
This seems a bit of a limitation in the file association system.
From what I've read, specifying an entry in defaults.list should change this order, but it doesn't for me. I hacked it by putting in a symlink to the kde/kfmclient_dir.desktop file in the applications directory.

I didn't want to remove the nautilus entry, but that would have fixed it too.

I hope this helps.

An easier way is to copy the kfmclient_dir.desktop file from /usr/share/applications/kde to the user's local .local/share/applications directory.

Remove the "OnlyShowIn=KDE" line, and add the mimetype x-directory/gnome-default-handler.

Then as the user run "update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications".

Check the local mimeinfo.cache file has been updated.

Restart firefox (IMPORTANT!)

I get no such command

update-desktop-database

/usr/bin/update-desktop-database comes from the package desktop-file-utils

firefox 2.0 should use the mime types of kde/gnome, so try upgrading to that version or newer if you don't already use the newest verion.

update-desktop-files is not available on every distribution.

Please tell me more about this mime feature?

I ma just a noob.

I have Kubuntu 6.10 and KDE 3.5.6 and Firefox 2.0.1

"update-desktop-files" does not work for me.

Please help.

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Originally posted by robertpolson
Please tell me more about this mime feature?

Not much to tell:
kde and gnome now use a XDG-based mime type system, and the third party application firefox should follow that system since version 2.0

Whatever that meant, I still cannot get Open and Open Containing folder in Firefox


I am even getting used to not using this feature at all.