How to add a MIME handler to Firefox and Internet Explorer from an installer?

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How to add a MIME handler to Firefox and Internet Explorer from an installer

I'm looking to create an installer that will add a handler for a MIME type in Firefox and Explorer. The installer I will be using will be either INNO (a.k.a Oh Nooo!) or NSIS. How do Mozilla and Microsoft recommend adding a handler. So far all I have been able to find for Firefox is how to Add/Remove/Augment manually which no matter how simple is something I would like to hide from the user.

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For NSIS, to register your application as default for a given MIME type, you can either : manually write...

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