Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:38:36PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Andrew.
>
> On Aug 01 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to
> > > open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files?
> >
> > I'm sure there is a 'proper' way to do this, but the quick hack which
> > works right now is to specify /usr/bin/firefox (or iceweasel,
> > whatever) as the program to use to open this file (instead of the
> > default less).
>
> Yes, how did you do that? I did that by creation of a .mailcap file here
> with the inclusion of the proper entry, but I could not do it inside the
> browser itself, which is a shame. :-(

okay, when you click on the *.changes file, it should be popping up a dialog asking what to do with the file: whether to open it with less or save the file. You can change the program used to open the file. The dialog says "You have chosen to open... What should iceweasel do with this file?" select "Open With", click the list box to the right, select "Other..." enter /usr/bin/firefox in the file picker and away you go.
>
> > Works here, but forces the download dialog to appear as well (though
> > that is a configurable item in edit->preferences. That's not really
> > what you're after though, i'd bet.
>
> Yes, that's a semi-solution to the problem, but I could find an
> extension to the browser somewhere with Google that makes it open things
> with the browser, but as I don't want to have extensions (I want here a
> pretty minimal environment), I'm using the mailcap hack. :-(
>
>

can you post your mailcap hack?

A

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