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launch an application from firefox
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Subject:	launch an application from firefox
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	alexxx.magni
Date:	16 Feb 2008

Hello everybody,
I am trying to develop an application to be used locally, which should
provide me an interface to my documents from Firefox in a HTML page
provided by the local server.

Ideally, I would like it to represent some categories of documents as
ordered / searchable icon links, allowing me to launch their
associated helper programs when clicked: so that clicking on *.lyx
documents would open the LyX word processor, clicking on *.nb
documents would open Mathematica, and so on...

If I remember correctly, there were once preferences where to
associate filetypes with helper programs, but I cannot find it
anymore.
Moreover, I'd like the system to be easily setup in case of reinstall,
without the hassle of adding lot of preferences to Firefox.

I imagine it is probably not possible due to security reasons, but
it's really impossible to define the helper apps in the link itself,
sort of <a href="paper1.lyx" openwith="LyX"> ?

thank you for any help

Alessandro Magni
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