Re: Default MIME type: text

On Fri, Nov 07 2003, Crispin Flowerday wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:50, Mattperry wrote:
>> It's very common for me to come across text files with non-standard
>> extensions, like "foo.c" or "bar.m" or "junk.data".  When I try to
>> access them in Galeon, I'm greeted with an "Unknown type" dialog, and my
>> only option is to save the file.  This is slightly inconvenient, as I'd
>> only like to view the file as text. [...]

> If I understand the problems correctly, by the time the unknown MIME
> type dialog is displayed, mozilla has already decided that it can't
> display the page. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76881

A kinda stupid workaround:

Choose: View with helper application -> Other Application -> Enter
"galeon".  :-/

Instead of "http://foo/bar.tex" Galeon displays the local temp file
"/tmp/bar.tex".

Bye, Reiner.
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