Firefox/Thunderbird File Associations

I installed Firefox and Thunderbird in KDE4 but every time I go to open a link in Thunderbird or a file in Firefox, it wants me to chose a program to open the files with. I installed GNOME and made sure that the application settings in both are correct, but Firefox still has wants me to specify an application for a zip and a web browser to open links in Thunderbird.
How can I fix this?

Well, it would  be enough for me, if i could make <dolphin> my default file manager. But in Edit->Preferences->Applications i can't see, how associate it. There is no system.file.mime (or whatever ), and i don't know how to add it.
But problem is, that firefox uses gnome mime types by default, and further xfce4 (or xfce4 just uses gnome, don't know exactly), but no kde.
I found  on ubuntu forum link to http://luisfpg.blogspot.com/2009/04/mak … -kdes.html, where *all file associations are asignet to xdg-open*.
Unfortunately this solution didn't work. <xdg-open> from within firefox, uses xfce4 associations, but <xdg-open> launched from my shell, uses kde associations.

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