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  1. Bug #119175
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Comment 2 for bug 119175

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 119175] Re: jnlp support in Firefox

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:29:36PM -0000, RainCT wrote:
> I've found on [1] that Firefox can be configured to use it adding
> following entry to file `~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/mimeTypes.rdf':
>
> <RDF:Description
> RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-java-jnlp-file"
> NC:path="/usr/bin/javaws"
> NC:prettyName="javaws" />
>
> But I don't see any change with and without that, on both it asks to use
> either `Java Web Start application' or download it.
>
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-
> list/2006-February/msg00315.html
>

javaws should be available as a package (most likely just
sun-java6-bin or something). If it still doesn't work then most likely
that package should register the mimetype properly.

 - Alexander