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Why are all my Firefox downloads opened by VLC media player?

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It has been more than one week, and Firefox has started opening any downloaded file with VLC media player, even if I change the source of opening the file. In the next download, it will open again with VLC media player. What should I do?

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answered 2 Years ago panshow · Accepted Answer

I had the same problem and I resolved it like this:

--> Open the file .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list with a text editor (gedit for example).

--> If you have this line:

    application/octet-stream=vlc.desktop;



erase `vlc.desktop`

--> Save & restart computer

note: the "mimeapps.list" is now stored in /home/userprofil/.config/mimeapps.list in Ubuntu 18.04