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Hi Andy --
Wow, I understood part of what you wrote. I got as far as the Installed Plug-Ins page and was confronted with charts that might have well have been written in Cyrillic. MIME Type, Description, Extensions by the dozens. Here's the chart from file QuickTime Plugin.plugin:
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audio/x-m4a AAC audio m4a
video/x-m4v Video (protected) m4v
image/x-jpeg2000-image JPEG2000 image jp2
video/flc AutoDesk Animator (FLC) flc,fli,cel
image/x-png PNG image png
image/x-sgi SGI image sgi,rgb
image/x-bmp BMP image bmp,dib
audio/x-m4p AAC audio (protected) m4p
image/jp2 JPEG2000 image jp2
audio/x-midi MIDI mid,midi,smf,kar
audio/x-mpeg3 MP3 audio mp3,swa
audio/3gpp2 3GPP2 media 3g2,3gp2
audio/mp4 MPEG-4 media mp4
video/sd-video SD video sdv
audio/ac3 AC3 audio ac3
video/3gpp 3GPP media 3gp,3gpp
audio/mpeg MPEG audio mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa,m2a,mp3,swa
video/x-mpeg MPEG media mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1v,m1a,m75,m15,mp2,mpm,mpv,mpa
audio/basic uLaw/AU audio au,snd,ulw
audio/mp3 MP3 audio mp3,swa
application/x-sdp SDP stream descriptor sdp
audio/mpeg3 MP3 audio mp3,swa
video/quicktime QuickTime Movie mov,qt,mov,qt,mqv
video/msvideo Video For Windows (AVI) avi,vfw
audio/midi MIDI mid,midi,smf,kar
image/x-macpaint MacPaint image pntg,pnt,mac
image/x-targa TGA image targa,tga
audio/x-mpeg MPEG audio mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa,m2a,mp3,swa
audio/x-m4b AAC audio book m4b
image/pict PICT image pict,pic,pct
image/x-quicktime QuickTime image qtif,qti
audio/x-gsm GSM audio gsm
audio/x-wav WAVE audio wav,bwf
video/mpeg MPEG media mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1v,m1a,m75,m15,mp2,mpm,mpv,mpa
video/x-msvideo Video For Windows (AVI) avi,vfw
audio/x-caf CAF audio caf
application/x-mpeg AMC media amc
audio/x-aiff AIFF audio aiff,aif,aifc,cdda
image/png PNG image png
image/x-pict PICT image pict,pic,pct
video/3gpp2 3GPP2 media 3g2,3gp2
audio/wav WAVE audio wav,bwf
application/sdp SDP stream descriptor sdp
audio/aiff AIFF audio aiff,aif,aifc,cdda
image/jpeg2000-image JPEG2000 image jp2
audio/mid MIDI mid,midi,smf,kar
audio/amr AMR audio amr
application/x-rtsp RTSP stream descriptor rtsp,rts
audio/x-aac AAC audio aac,adts
image/tiff TIFF image tif,tiff
image/x-tiff TIFF image tif,tiff
audio/3gpp 3GPP media 3gp,3gpp
audio/aac AAC audio aac,adts
video/avi Video For Windows (AVI) avi,vfw
audio/vnd.qcelp QUALCOMM PureVoice audio qcp,qcp
audio/x-ac3 AC3 audio ac3
video/mp4 MPEG-4 media mp4
image/jpeg2000 JPEG2000 image jp2
None of this means anything to me. Now what?
Re: Firefox. I've dug through every nook and cranny I can find in its Preferences, but there's nothing shown as a way to choose which reader one prefers. Oy, what a dilemma!
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