[solved] download album in firefox doesn't work

[Jay]

Using firefox 3 & picasa 2.7 (linux)

When clicking a "download album" link on a picasaweb page, firefox
would prompt to choose an app for the download. This dialog box
wouldn't go away when choosing the default picasa. I had to manually
associate a new application from /usr/bin/picasa -- the default points
to /opt/picasa/bin/picasa.

edit > preferences > applications > picasa > use other:
browse to /usr/bin/picasa

[leiz]

Firefox 3 changed the way it chooses external apps. I have a
workaround, but it needs some more testing first.

[leiz]

By the way, what Linux distro are you using?

On Aug 7, 2:48 pm, Jay <JayArmstro...@gmail.com> wrote:

[leiz]

This should register Picasa with Firefox 3. You need to have Gnome
installed for this to work - this is a limitation with Firefox.

download http://leiz.org/picasa/picasa.schemas
sha1sum: 3d06788d09acc4e829f7cf6000525440f2d4de43

Make sure your system has the latest updates. This probably won't work
if you have a fresh install with Firefox 3.0b5.

On Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, as root:
mv picasa.schemas /usr/share/gconf/schemas/picasa.schemas
gconf-schemas --register picasa.schemas

On Fedora 9, as root:

mv picasa.schemas /etc/gconf/schemas/picasa.schemas
export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/picasa.schemas

I think it should work right away, but if not, try logging out and
back in.

On Aug 7, 2:48 pm, Jay <JayArmstro...@gmail.com> wrote:

[RapMan]

Cool, it works in ubuntu 8.04.1 after these commands you described,
thanks!

On 8 Srp, 23:46, leiz <zhang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This should register Picasa with Firefox 3. You need to have Gnome
> installed for this to work - this is a limitation with Firefox.
>

> downloadhttp://leiz.org/picasa/picasa.schemas

[AndreaDFC]

Thank you Leiz: it worked also on my Ubuntu 8.04.