Firefox file associations

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 17:28:20 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Pardon my stupidity and confusion, I have what seems to be a rather
> simple question, but I feel lost.
> 
> How can I add/modify a file/application association in Firefox? On
> Linux or on WinXP for that matter? I tried to read every FM I could
> find and the answer seems, amazingly, "you can't". It seems so basic
> that I refuse to believe there is no solution unless/until someone
> here confirms the sad state of affairs.
> 

In Firefox 3.6-beta on Mandriva Cooker I accessed:

Edit -> Preferences -> Applications -> CSV Document -> Action and it worked.

> Here is the specific problem. I want to click on a link to a CSV file
> to open it in a spreadsheet, be it OOCalc or Gnumeric or Linux, Excel
> on Windows, etc. However, Firefox (3.5.5 on both platforms) apparently
> recognizes it as a text file and cheerfully opens it itself, as plain
> text, which is not what I want. The Edit->Preferences (Tools->Options
> on WIndows) popup has an Applications tab that lists "Actions", but
> CSV is not listed and there isn't any way to add it. The docs say that
> the only way to add a new file type to the list is the first time you
> click on a link to this type of file, where it offers you to download
> or "open with". In this case I doubt even that was ever available
> since apparently it is just a text file to Firefox. I found a
> "knowledge base" article saying the only way to modify file
> associations is to install a SeaMonkey add-on. I went to look at the
> add-on - it seems totally obsolete, is supposed to work with FF 2.0
> and is known to be buggy with 3.1. I will think a dozen times before
> installing it.
> 
> Firefox does not seem to look at system customizations in this case
> either. I *know* my KDE associates CSV files with OOCalc and Windows -
> with Excel (the latter is the default, I think). Konqueror and IE do
> the "right" thing.
> 
> FWIW, my browser of choice is Konqueror which is mostly sane. However,
> I am testing something and I can't afford to omit Firefox from the
> list of target browsers.
> 
> What am I missing? Has Firefox been dumbed down to this extent?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 


Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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