Opening documents in Firefox ( SOLVED )

Hi,
I cannot seem to open documents ( pdfs, doc, excel) directly from a website. When given the option of whether I want to download the file or open it, if I choose to open the file, it asks me for the location of the program. The same problem occurs when I click in the downloads notification box. I have to navigate to the actual file location and click on it, whereupon the appropriate program ( writer, okular..etc) is automatically chosen.
Is there anything I can do so the OS can automatically open the file without me having to navigate to the actual file and click on it?
Apologies if my problem is not clear...I cant seem to think of a better way to explain it.
Thanks in advance
Samsom
Last edited by samsom (2009-09-22 13:02:07)

Gen2ly wrote:
samsom wrote:When I click on "Open with", it takes me to my home folder rather than a list of applications to choose from.
Also, I have got openoffice plugin for firefox which is the default program for opening ODF files. However, it does not recognise .doc or .ppt extensions as compatible.
Sameer
I believe that this is Firefox's default behavior to open the find file dialog. I don't think there is a find application dialog like I've seen in windows. I only use KDE though so maybe there is in Gnome. Have you tried finding the application and then doing the other steps to see if firefox recognizes it then? After I do this I can goto the Preferences > Applications and seen okular listed. If you need to find out where the application is you can type from the terminal:
whereis <program-name>
It worked! Thanks a lot, mate.
Cheers
Samsom

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