How do you configure firefox to open an application without prompting the user?

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Published on 2009-09-16T20:39:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 19:01 UTC
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I've got a serverside app that send down a custom mime-type file "application/x-optibase".

Firefox prompt user user to save or open the file and if the user clicks open the correct application launches so I believe I have mimeType.rdf configured correctly

I've gone into about:config and set

browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile to application/x-optibase

and

browser.helpApps.alwaysAsk.force to false

According to the minimal documentation out there this should enable the application to automatically open when the user downloads the file but it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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