[TriLUG] viewing files with firefox

[Owen Berry]

If you have a local web server, try serving the files off it. I tried
that and Apache gave a .java file a content-type of text/plain, which
Firefox then opened "inline".

I think the problem may be that Firefox is not recognizing the content
type of a local file and therefore doesn't know what to do with it. Just
for kicks I chose /usr/bin/firefox as the program to open it with. The
new firefox window asked me the same question - "Open With or Save to
Disk".

Not a solution to your problem, but a workaround.

Owen

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I'm using firefox 1.5.0.7 to look through the (java) swing 
> tutorial, which I've downloaded and installed on some 
> localdirectory. I start with the 
> url=file:/directory/index.html
> 
> After a bit of poking around I click on a link to the source 
> code of some file I'm interested in. I had hoped the code 
> would come up in a window. Instead I get a box with
> 
> o save to disk
> o open with ... java compiler /other
> 
> I go to firefox->preferences->download->fileextensions to 
> find that "java" isn't a known file extension so apparently 
> running the java compiler is built in.
> 
> "other" leads me to a directory viewer, so I tell firefox to 
> use /usr/bin/less as the viewer (and stupidly tell it to do 
> this everytime for this type of file). Firefox (and the 
> windowing system) hangs - I ctrl/alt/F1 out of Xorg and 
> startx again. Now when I try to look at a java file, the 
> windowing system hangs every time. I find that `less` is in 
> ~/.mozilla/.../mimetypes.rdf.
> 
> What did the original mimetypes file look like? Go to 
> another linux machine with the same version of firefox - 
> there's no java entries anywhere in the mimetypes.rdf file 
> here (is firefox 1.5.0.7 different on each machine?), but 
> this firefox (successfully) opens the java file (with 
> gedit). There's no gedit in the mimetypes.rdf file or in the 
> preferences->download->fileextensions.
> 
> It's like I'm trapped on a windows machine.
> 
> I'd really like the java code just to appear in a firefox 
> window as text. Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> Thanks Joe
> 
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