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My personal paper cut

My personal paper cut

Posted Jul 30, 2009 15:22 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: My personal paper cut by Baylink
Parent article: Fighting small bugs

My 'solution' is, whenever Firefox pops up a dialogue asking how to open a file, to choose '/usr/bin/xdg-open'. This allows me to use whatever file handler I define in my DE, neatly bypassing Firefox's hilariously bad 'open with' system.


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My personal paper cut

Posted Jul 30, 2009 16:27 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

haha, this is brilliant! And obvious -- in all these years of pain (papercut-quality pain) I'm surprised I didn't think of this.

Good call nye.

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