[Sussex] Firefx helper panel

[Mark Harrison]

Tools / Options / Extensions / Get New Extensions

Select and Install "MIME Type Editor"

Exit and Restart Firefox

Tools / Mimetypes



Mark






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
To: "Sussex Linux User Group" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: [Sussex] Firefx helper panel


> First make sure your sitting down before you read any futher.
> 
> Not sitting down, you were warned!!!
> 
> Google as failed me!!!
> 
> I want to install Java Web Start on Firefox 0.9.3 (Debian).
> 
> I have already configured Apache to send the correct mime type:
>    application/x-java-jnlp-file
> No problem there, didn't need to google, Sun's documentation told
> me all I need to know.  First test showed the mime type in Firefox's
> download page.
> 
> So now I need to configure the helper for Firefox so that when it
> gets a file of that mime type is runs the javaws program.  Simple
> you would have thought.
> 
> My problem is simple.  I can't find where the configuration panel
> for helper programs in Firefox is.  Google failed me, all the
> pages it turned up talk about "Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator
> -> Helper Applications" as the place to configure your helpers.
> But with Fire fox there is no "Navigator" tab/window/option.
> 
> After having googled for more or less an hour I am now in shock.
> My status as a Geek is now in tatters and seriously considering
> giving up my membership to "Get a Life, Hackers Anonymous".
> 
> Steve D
> 
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