Comments on: Google Desktop on Linux

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:02:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip, it worked!

By: Mohammad Azimi

Mohammad Azimi — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:29:36 +0000

That’s strange. I wouldn’t think that this is a problem with Google Desktop but rather with what you have set as your default application for the mp3 file extension. Right click on an mp3 file you are trying to open and go to properties. Under the “open with” tab make sure you don’t have Firefox selected as the application. Choose something like Move Player or Rythmbox and it should work.

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:25:02 +0000

Nice article.
I tried Google Desktop and I liked it, but it opens my mp3 files in Firefox instead of my preferred media player (Listen).

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