Firefox – Modify Firefox mimetypes.rdf to prompt Open With for application/octet-stream

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Some web-servers intentionally or inadvertently use the application/octet-stream mime-type for files where either the actual mime-type isn't known or when they are incorrectly configured. Or perhaps where the file is binary and application/octet-stream is appropriate.

With these mimetypes, the Open With option is omitted from the file download dialog box.

I would like to modify Firefox mimetype.rdf (or whatever else is needed) to change this behaviour so that "Open With" option is always present.

I have skimmed the Mozilla docs and monkeyed with the rdf a bit, but I am hoping someone has already figured this out.

Of course, if there is an extension I cannot find that just does this already, excellent.

Best Answer

You could try the experimental extension OpenDownload² :

OpenDownload² inserts a "Run" button into the "Open File" dialog when downloading files. Clicking the button saves the particular file in your temporary directory and opens it with the assigned application or (for .exe files) runs the application from there.

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Note: The following works up to OS X 10.7 but not in 10.8 – see this question.

Open up AppleScript Editor.app and paste the following:

on run argv
    tell application "System Events"
        if (name of processes) contains "Firefox" then
            tell application "Firefox" to activate
            keystroke "n" using command down
            delay 0.1 -- UI scripting delay
        else
            tell application "Firefox" to activate
            delay 0.3 -- more delay
        end if
        keystroke "l" using command down
        keystroke item 1 of argv
        keystroke return
    end tell
end run

Here, we'll either open a new Window with Cmd-N, or just activate Firefox. I included a custom delay — this is necessary since UI actions have an inherent delay and the script would then type away even though the window wasn't ready yet.

Finally, we'll keystroke the first argument, which is item 1 of argv.

Save this file under firefox-window.scpt, e.g. in your home folder. Then modify the shell function in ~/.bash_profile:

function firefox-window() {
  osascript ~/firefox-window.scpt "$1"
}

This will pass the first command line argument $1 to the AppleScript, to be accessed as item 1 of argv.

Save the .bash_profile and don't forget to restart your terminal or enter source ~/.bash_profile. Then, simply run the command with:

firefox-window apple.com
firefox-window google.com

… et cetera.

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