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Re: Default helper apps with Mozilla 0.9.5



> How does Mozilla 0.9.5 know what application to use for opening
> non-HTML documents?

Mozilla 0.9.5 uses the /etc/mailcap file to handle file types it can't
handle itself.  If xpdf is before acroread for the 'application/pdf'
MIME type, it will use xpdf to open it.  Editing the /etc/mailcap
file and restarting Mozilla will let you control this.  The man page
for update-mime discusses using /etc/mailcap.order to acheive this,
but I'm not sure what the advantage is over editing the /etc/mailcap
file directly.

Chris
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