mozilla firefox file opening

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:20:43 +0200
Mario Vukelic wrote:

> > No.  I'm using apache2 to serve files locally 
> 
> Ooooh! Got it! Why didn't you say so!? ;)

I forgot, sorry, largely because it seemed to be to be a browser issue
and not a server issue.

It seemed to me that the obvious policy for a browser was to display
files according to extension.  This would be fine for the overwhelming
majority of files. Where there was an extension that it didn't
understand (or none), it should look at the file to see if there was a
clue as to how it should deal with it.  Where this didn't provide a
solution it should pop up a "what shall I do?" dialog.

But that's not what is happening. And the dialog only allows you to open
it in another browser (I've only tried Dillo, which works).

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
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