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I want to invent a new mime-type and associate it to a custom application in the browser to enable users to launch my app from a web page. The users of my secure web site are in a closed-environment, meaning this is not a general-purpose, mainstream application - I can configure their browser ahead of time. Spoon.net does something very similar to enable launching virtualized applications using their mini-kernel plugin. One of the answers to this question alluded to this method, without details for how to accomplish it. How do I achieve this in a cross-platform manner on Chrome and IE 8/9? Is there a way to do the mime-type association through browser extensions, either native or through crossrider ? How does an app like Adobe Reader or Apple Quicktime achieve this? I want to avoid touching the registry if possible. What are the risks associated with this method? My site is an intranet web application secured with a certificate and trusted by my users. Any reason I should not go down this path? EDIT : Apparently this can be achieved in Firefox by manipulating the mimeTypes.rdf file . EDIT : It looks like JDIC is a Java-based mechanism that could be used for the same thing. Is there a similar non-Java construct? Maybe in Javascript?

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