Getting Firefox to use KDE's file associations

Getting Firefox to use KDE's file associations - Firefox,KDE,file,associations,pdf,word,doc,powerpoint,pps,excel,xls,openoffice,tar,bz2,zip,gz,rar,7z, One of the biggest things that annoys me about running Firefox in KDE is it's lack of integration with KDE. It uses GTK instead of QT, but using the GTK-QT engine kind of solves that. However, Firefox won't use KDE's file associations. Well, it's possible to modify Firefox's file associations manually. Unfortunately, I don't know where KDE saves its file associations, but this fix works fine.

Apparently, Firefox reads some of its associations from the /etc/mailcap file. So simply add lines to that file and Firefox will obey them.

For example, to open PDF files in KPDF, use the following line:
application/pdf; kpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="PDF Document" ; nametemplate=%s.pdf
You must make sure to use the correct MIME type, though, or it won't work. So while application/vnc.ms-excel (for Excel files) will work, application/x-msexcel won't, even though it's listed as an alias. Here's some more: Open documents in OpenOffice:
application/msword; openoffice.org2.3 -writer '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Microsoft Word Document" ; nametemplate=%s.doc	
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; openoffice.org2.3 -impress '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Microsoft PowerPoint Document" nametemplate=%s.pps	
application/vnd.ms-excel; openoffice.org2.3 -calc '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Microsoft Excel Document" ; nametemplate=%s.xls
Open archives in ark:
application/x-tar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Tar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.tar	
application/x-bzip-compressed-tar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="BZ2 Compressed Tar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.tbz	
application/x-bzip-compressed-tar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="BZ2 Compressed Tar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.tar.bz2	
application/x-bzip; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="BZ2 Compressed Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.bz2	
application/x-gtar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="GZipped Tar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.tgz	
application/x-gtar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="GZipped Tar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.tar.gz	
application/x-gzip; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="GZipped Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.gz	
application/x-rar; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Rar Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.rar	
application/x-7z-compressed; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="7zip Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.7z	
application/zip; ark '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ; description="Zip Archive" ; nametemplate=%s.zip
Tags: Firefox, KDE, file, associations, pdf, word, doc, powerpoint, pps, excel, xls, openoffice, tar, bz2, zip, gz, rar, 7z,

Comments

Awesome, thank you for this.
By kde user 05/08/09 12:24:25

Read the FF3 download page:

For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
* NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
* DBus 1.0 or higher
* HAL 0.5.8 or higher
* GNOME 2.16 or higher

No KDE.

Thanks Mozilla for making a browser which runs much better on Windows than on some Linux boxes.
By red greene 06/12/09 05:45:27

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