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shared-mime-info package

  1. Bug #385128
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 385128

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote : Re: [Bug 385128] Re: *.XPI should be associated with Firefox in KDE

No, it's not the obvious choice as Thunderbird and other xulrunner based
apps use the same file format. I would think that most people that
install Firefox extensions do it from within Firefox. In that case,
they never even see the .xpi file. I would suggest you make a proposal
on http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ and see what type of feedback you get.
I discussed this with the maintainers of the package and the result was
the current behavior is good for now. See what happens on brainstorm
and then maybe we can revisit this.

Mark wrote:
> But opening them as zip-file is in most cases also not the choice. I do
> not know how it is in Gnome, but in KDE there is the possibility to
> associate with more then one filetype and sort by priority. I think it
> is a reasonable assumption that most extensions are used in Firefox, so
> Firefox would be priority one then and then others follow. So please
> reconsider your decision.
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