Why does firebird get associated with .jpg images

ken481 · Post by **ken481** » January 4th, 2004, 5:32 am

I have noted that after setting firebird as my default browser it became associated with .jpg images. Is there a way to control the file associations of firebird?

Dunderklumpen · Post by **Dunderklumpen** » January 4th, 2004, 7:15 am

What OS are you using?

Under Windows - right click on a jpg-file and then "Open with" and "Choose program" - check the box after having browsed for the software you like and the setting should be saved.

ken481 · Post by **ken481** » January 4th, 2004, 7:25 am

Well i did that and it does use paint as a defualt program to open the .jpg yet the icon is still that of firebird. also why did the.jpg images get associated with firbird in the first place

Dunderklumpen · Post by **Dunderklumpen** » January 4th, 2004, 7:31 am

You can change the icon under Control Panel/Folder Options/Files

Firebird takes over some fileextensions that it should not. As far as I know it is due to a bug.

michaell522 · Post by **michaell522** » January 4th, 2004, 8:00 am

Dunderklumpen wrote:Firebird takes over some fileextensions that it should not. As far as I know it is due to a bug.

You make it sound like it happened by accident. Firebird takes over images because Netscape wanted Mozilla to take over images (on the grounds that in a default system they would otherwise be associated with IE), and it hasn't been changed since then. That's the history - there is, as you say, a bug filed to change the behaviour.

Dunderklumpen · Post by **Dunderklumpen** » January 4th, 2004, 8:04 am

Thank you for the extra information.

ken481 · Post by **ken481** » January 4th, 2004, 9:10 am

OK thanks i hope that someday this will be changed

Kloos · Post by **Kloos** » January 4th, 2004, 12:52 pm

The sooner it's changed the better. It's a real pain.

jooliaan · Post by **jooliaan** » January 5th, 2004, 7:16 am

Anonymous wrote:The sooner it's changed the better. It's a real pain.

I agree

ExDeus · Post by **ExDeus** » January 6th, 2004, 2:57 am

ken481 wrote:Well i did that and it does use paint as a defualt program to open the .jpg yet the icon is still that of firebird. also why did the.jpg images get associated with firbird in the first place

After changing the file association so that .jpg files open in another program, the icon should change to the icon for that program. The Firebird icons have a tendency to stick around longer than they should, so if you reset your display's color depth it will rebuild the icon cache and it should then use the correct icons.

Using Windows: right-click on the Desktop, select Properties, go to the Settings tab, change the "Color quality" setting to anything else and then click Apply. Change it back and click OK.

If that doesn't work, right-click on the Desktop and select Refresh. If that still doesn't do it, use your computer for a week or two and the icons will eventually change.

Dunderklumpen · Post by **Dunderklumpen** » January 6th, 2004, 3:05 am

Or change the icon under Control Panel/Folder Options/and Files. You can change actions and icon for each and every protocol in there.

DallasBill · Post by **DallasBill** » January 6th, 2004, 12:07 pm

However, changing the icon that way does not change the (newly entrenched FB) system default. Hit the default button there and back it goes to FB!

The quickest... and permanent... way is when you are at Control Panel/Folder Options/ Files: for each extension, such as .jpg... and there will be others... delete that type. Then, the file system will rebuild/reassociate to what it was originally set by Windows.

This works for Win2K and XP... no idea if it will with Win9x.

SuperSheep · Post by **SuperSheep** » January 13th, 2004, 9:58 am

DallasBill wrote:The quickest... and permanent... way is when you are at Control Panel/Folder Options/ Files: for each extension, such as .jpg... and there will be others... delete that type. Then, the file system will rebuild/reassociate to what it was originally set by Windows.

This works for Win2K and XP... no idea if it will with Win9x.

Um. I did this and the system did _NOT_ rebuild my icons. Now I just have missing icons and that system doesn't know what to do with those particular extensions. Could you be more specific as to what exactly I'm supposed to do now.

Post by **alanjstr** » January 13th, 2004, 12:18 pm

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131106

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 13th, 2004, 6:14 pm

http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe

you can rebuild your icons at any time with this tool, also it has other great features, check it out.