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Why does Firefox say that all .ZIP files are Google Gadgets?

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  • Èsì tí ó kẹ́hìn lọ́wọ́ Scott M. Sanders

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Whenever I open a file of MIME type application/zip from a website, Firefox says that I have chosen to open a file "which is a: Google Gadget."

I had the old Google Desktop on my old PC which used Gadgets, which have the extension .GG (not .ZIP), and I copied my profile with tons of my user info to my new PC.

How do I get Firefox to not say that all .ZIP files are Google Gadgets?

Whenever I open a file of MIME type application/zip from a website, Firefox says that I have chosen to open a file "which is a: Google Gadget." I had the old Google Desktop on my old PC which used Gadgets, which have the extension .GG (not .ZIP), and I copied my profile with tons of my user info to my new PC. How do I get Firefox to not say that all .ZIP files are Google Gadgets?

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Did you try to delete the mimeTypes.rdf file in the Firefox Profile Folder?

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See this-
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+file+types

Change the action for ZIP content type.

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There was no action for "Compressed (zipped) Folder," so I made it Explorer -- same results.

My Firefox seems to think that, as shown if I select "Use other..."

  • application/zip is a Google Gadget and
  • application/x-zip is a Compressed (zipped) Folder.

Both are designated with zip icons.

So ideally I want to fix application/zip in Firefox so that it's a ZIP file like normal.

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You probably need to change that MIME type in the MIME database key in the Windows registry.

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type
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.zip is registered as content type application/x-zip-compressed.

In the MIME DB, application/x-zip-compressed and application/zip are both registered to extension .zip.

application/x-zip is not in either.

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Did you try to delete the mimeTypes.rdf file in the Firefox Profile Folder?

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Thank you; that was it. Rather than delete, I was able to edit the following from...

  • NC:fileExtensions="gg"
  • NC:description="Google Gadget"

... to...

  • NC:fileExtensions="zip"
  • NC:description="Compressed (zipped) Folder"