Firefox file associations

[Tomer Cohen]

I guess that these associations come from the operating system, maybe from
Gnome/GTK as Firefox is built on top of GTK.

2009/12/17 shimi <linux-il at shimi.net>

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3
>> >
>> > File types are added to the list after first being seen by the browser
>> and
>> > acted upon...
>>
>> I mentioned this article in my original post. There is no plugin for
>> csv files (or for txt file, or for shell scripts, or for C files - all
>> of these and more are treated as text, I guess), and there is no
>> save/open dialog for them that would allow me to set the action.
>>
>>
> I see...
>
> What happens if you force it? i.e. use a PHP script that has:
>
> <?php
>
> header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.csv');
>
> ?>
>
> and browse to it?
>
> If you don't have a server with a PHP to host this on, I can create such a
> URL for you...
>
> -- Shimi
>
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Tomer Cohen
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