Filed under: Productivity, Mozilla
Make Firefox allow "Open with" for all files
A minor peeve of mine is the way Firefox tries to protect you from yourself, i.e. not letting you choose the "Open With" option when downloading certain files, and instead making you save it to your hard drive first. Usually this only applies to executable files, but Firefox's definition of executable is pretty broad, so sometimes this restriction kicks in even when opening, say, JavaScript files. Oddly, there's no option to fix this, not even in about:config. If you've had it with this "feature," though, there is something you can do, but as you've probably guessed already it requires editing some files hidden deep in Firefox's innards. If you're comfortable with the risk, though, click through to this tutorial on Opening EXE files directly in Firefox (the server seems a bit slow just now, so you may have to try a couple times).
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Liam said 6:03PM on 5-29-2006
Oooh please... The "risk" is not "editing some files hidden deep in Firefox's innards", but should be obvious to anyone by now. A few posts like this one, a few Greasemonkey releases, and Firefox will be another IE
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Alec said 1:14AM on 5-30-2006
This can also be done with an extension called opendownload...so really no need to go to all that trouble.
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Jordan Running said 1:18AM on 5-30-2006
Thanks for the tip, Alec!
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