Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released [LWN.net]

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Posted Jun 15, 2004 16:33 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
In reply to: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released by rsidd
Parent article: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

It does allow you to edit existing ones, and I guess you'd add a new one when you click on an unknown file type, so that's ok. Right on the first part; my bad. But my version of firefox-0.9 (linux/x86) lists the following file types: bz2, gz, rpm, tar, xpm There isn't any "unknown file type"! And why are Extensions under Tools, rather than Edit:Preferences? And why is Download Manager under *both* Edit:Preferences AND Tools??? Send this one back to the dog-pound...

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Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Posted Jun 15, 2004 17:09 UTC (Tue) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]

And why are Extensions under Tools, rather than Edit:Preferences? And why is Download Manager under *both* Edit:Preferences AND Tools???

I would imagine because the options under Tools are launching tools. Tools->Extensions should launch the Extension Manager, Tools->Themes launches the Theme Manager, and Tools->Downloads launches the Download Manager. Edit->Preferences->Downloads is for adjusting the options for the Download Manager, not for launching the manager itself.

NOTE: I could be wrong about this becuase I haven't tried 0.9 yet. I'm still waiting for some of the extensions I use to be updated for it.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Posted Jun 15, 2004 18:20 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

But my version of firefox-0.9 (linux/x86) lists the following file types: bz2, gz, rpm, tar, xpm

Probably imported from your previous profile.

There isn't any "unknown file type"!

What I'm saying is, if you clicked on a link going to an unknown file type (say, pdf) it should prompt you for what to do, and if you then click on "automatically take this action next time" it will do that next time. (I do have xpdf set up for pdf, but not automatic, so it doesn't appear in the download extensions menu; however, it remembers my previous choice of xpdf and shows that in the prompt.)