No mimtypes in Firefox 3.5 on openSUSE 11.1 Gnome??

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Hi.

I’m having some problems with Firefox and mimetypes. None seem to be configured except flash and 7 others >:(. I can’t open One-Click Install files, archives, music/video, etc because Firefox doesn’t know what to do with them. If I go to Preferences > Applications there’s only a handful of types in there. Reinstalling Firefox doesn’t help either.

How can I fix this? It’s quite annoying :(.

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How did you install 3.5? AFAIK, only 3.0 is in the “normal” repository? Or did you build it from sources?

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Thanks for the response.

Installed it via the Mozilla repo: Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1
x86_64 btw.

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Did you remove the old Firefox first, or did you upgrade? It looks like some dependency is messed up.
Do you get any joy when you go to “about:plugins”? Maybe your plugins are all confused?

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Removed 3.0 first.
I forgot to add this info on my first post but Imade the Live CD with SUSE Studio.
I also installed the openSUSE Firefox branding.

This is what’s on the about:plugins page

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes
Silverlight Plug-In

    File name: libmoonloader.so
    1.0.30401.0

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-silverlight 	Novell Moonlight 	scr 	Yes
OpenSC Signer plugin

    File name: opensc-signer.so
    This plugins handles web signatures using OpenSC smart card library.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
text/x-text-to-sign 	Text to be signed 	sgn 	Yes
iTunes Application Detector

    File name: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
    This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/itunes-plugin 			Yes
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Sorry for bumping lads but here’s a tiny update:

After some hours of searching I found out about MozPlugger which seems to have fixed some of the mime-types.
However, still no ymp (on click install) file support.
I don’t know where to go from here, do I need to install another package or do I need to do something with MozPlugger to let it use all of the gnome mime-types?
I’m a bit lost. Also downgrading to FF 3.0 doesn’t fix it.

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hi all,

i’m having same problem with firefox 3.5.5 on 64 bit suse 11.2 machine. i’m using here default firefox install.
What is interesting though is on my 32 bit laptop everything works just fine.
is this just a 64bit issue?