Re: [Thunderbird] Associating external Mac OS X application to mime types

Hi,

I did not find a workaround either.

But it is working with my Mozilla 1.6 RC!

Emmanuel BUU wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Just after installing Thunderbird 0.4 on Panther, I tried to bind 
> 'usual' mime types to external applications.
> 
> Example: PDF file to preview or MS word file to MS word
> 
> While I could do this with MS Office applications, I was unable to do 
> the same with most of Apple delivered ones (preview, iTune, etc.).
> 
> After investigating a bit, I found out about the notion of Application 
> bundle in Mac OS X and I suspected that Thunderbird preferences could 
> not handle them properly. No mention of this in the Mozilla FAQ thqt I 
> could read. Bugzilla did not contain such a bug report.
> 
> So I posted a bug
> 
> <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232220>
> 
> but thinking about it, I find this *so* obvious that I have two 
> additional questions:
> 
> - is there any workaround that I would have missed?
> - is the behavior the same with Mozilla 1.6
> 
> Emmanuel BUU