[TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm using firefox 1.5.0.7 to look through the (java) swing 
tutorial, which I've downloaded and installed on some 
localdirectory. I start with the 
url=file:/directory/index.html

After a bit of poking around I click on a link to the source 
code of some file I'm interested in. I had hoped the code 
would come up in a window. Instead I get a box with

o save to disk
o open with ... java compiler /other

I go to firefox->preferences->download->fileextensions to 
find that "java" isn't a known file extension so apparently 
running the java compiler is built in.

"other" leads me to a directory viewer, so I tell firefox to 
use /usr/bin/less as the viewer (and stupidly tell it to do 
this everytime for this type of file). Firefox (and the 
windowing system) hangs - I ctrl/alt/F1 out of Xorg and 
startx again. Now when I try to look at a java file, the 
windowing system hangs every time. I find that `less` is in 
~/.mozilla/.../mimetypes.rdf.

What did the original mimetypes file look like? Go to 
another linux machine with the same version of firefox - 
there's no java entries anywhere in the mimetypes.rdf file 
here (is firefox 1.5.0.7 different on each machine?), but 
this firefox (successfully) opens the java file (with 
gedit). There's no gedit in the mimetypes.rdf file or in the 
preferences->download->fileextensions.

It's like I'm trapped on a windows machine.

I'd really like the java code just to appear in a firefox 
window as text. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks Joe

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