Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:26, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 09:20, jim tate wrote:
>>> Downloading a rpm from the sight below, When I click on rpm to save
>>> in FC 6 all that happens it open a RealPlayer window , I can't even
>>> do a "Save link" that doesn't work either.
>>> This site is the only site I have had this problem with.
>>> What gives?
>> The browsers all come configured for winderz syntaxes for some reason,
>> and that think an .rpm is a realplayer file of some sort. The cure is
>> to right click on the url and chose the 'save as' option. Or find and
>> fix the file associations which I haven't yet.
>>
>> Frankly, that really should be bugzilla'd, its a PITA. But I'm too
>> lazy.
>>
>>> Jim
> /etc/mime.types?
>
[root@coyote linux-2.6.19]# grep .rpm /etc/mime.types
application/x-rpm rpm
#audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm
but I think this ones in the browsers own prefs someplace I haven't found.
If this is the proper place to fix it, what should that be edited to be?
which has got me puzzled because about:config in FF shows
helpers.global_mime_types_file uses /etc/mime.types
how about
browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk
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