Netscape mime types/helper applications

Netscape mime types/helper applications

Post by Jason Bon » Thu, 18 Jan 2001 04:01:34



I have a question regarding setting up Netscape to run certain helper
applications when files with a specified extension are clicked on.  When
I go into edit --> preferences --> navigator --> applications and I
enter a new helper application type, it asks for a file extension (easy
enough), an application to use (easy enough) and a mime type.  For mime
type I don't know what to put...I copy an example of another type
similar to it (like application/video for example) but when I click ok
and the dialogs go away and I try to click on a file of that extension
in netscape, it starts to display the application as a bunch of garbled
text in the browser on a new page.  So my question is, how does one set
up mime types in netscape?  I'm assuming that this is what I'm going
wrong.  Thanks much in advance,

  Jason

 
 
 

1. Netscape mime types/helper applications

I have a question regarding setting up Netscape to run certain helper
applications when files with a specified extension are clicked on.  When
I go into edit --> preferences --> navigator --> applications and I
enter a new helper application type, it asks for a file extension (easy
enough), an application to use (easy enough) and a mime type.  For mime
type I don't know what to put...I copy an example of another type
similar to it (like application/video for example) but when I click ok
and the dialogs go away and I try to click on a file of that extension
in netscape, it starts to display the application as a bunch of garbled
text in the browser on a new page.  So my question is, how does one set
up mime types in netscape?  I'm assuming that this is what I'm going
wrong.  Thanks much in advance,

  Jason

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