Firefox is an opensource web browser from Mozilla.
Firefox is distributed with Slackware.
It is quite annoying that Mozilla Firefox always forgets what application to use for “opening” a file which you just downloaded. Also, the context menu “Open containing folder” in the Downloads overview does not work.
Using “xdg-open” you can improve the integration of Firefox into your Desktop Environment a lot:
$ rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/<yourprofile>/mimeTypes.rdf
Tools > Downloads
” menu (by right-clicking on it and selecting “Open
“). /usr/bin/xdg-open
“, then check the checkbox to “Remember your choice
“.
After you’ve configured Firefox like that, both the “Open
” and “Open containing folder
” context menus will work. If you are running KDE then you can then change the preferred programs through KDE’s “file associations
” settings.
The “pdfjs” PDF viewer is built-in in Firefox since version 15.0, this means that there is no need to install a PDF viewer plugin like Adobe Reader additionally. The built-in PDF viewer renders PDF using HTML5 and JavaScript.
The PDF viewer is disabled by default, but that is likely going to change in the future, when the functionality has proven itself. In the meantime, you can enable it as follows:
PDF
” and make sure the associated action is set to “preview in firefox”.That's it! You don't even have to restart Firefox. Try opening a PDF, or even drag a PDF file from a filemanager into the Firefox window.
Known to work with: [Slack 14.1]
inode/directory=
audacious.desktop;
This should fix the problem.
Here's a one-liner to do it:
sudo sed -i 's|inode/directory=audacious.desktop;|inode/directory=|' /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
(I made an icon on my desktop with it in the COMMAND line)