Why are downloaded items always opening in gedit?

I'm running Firefox 26 and a modified version of Ubuntu 12.04. Whenever I download something and click on it in the top right download menu, the item is opened with the text editor gedit. If the file is not of a text nature (usually the case) it freezes gedit and is a pain to close. How can I prevent this?

Hi Advocate,
You can reset the open with dialogue you can [http://mzl.la/NxCODA Change what Firefox does when you download]
# Go to Firefox Options/Preferences
# Select the Applications menu
# From here you can change the application that opens up for specific document types
Please respond to this thread if you have any other questions about this.

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