(In reply to Alexander Stohr from comment #124) > text transfer from bug 57342:
> for my impression the browser should be able to remember decisions for > explicitly html/mime tagged file formats as already realized. but for for > non-tagged or "wildcard"-tagged files and it shall be check for the file > name extension (or absence of such an extension - this happens more often > than you would think) and decide based upon that extension. so the browser > needs not only a mime type default action configuration database/listing but > an extension based handling if mime type is not that useable. maybe even the > user can pass down certain mime types to the extension based treatment. thus > the mime type layer should see a new option: "handle by file extension". I think this is exactly what is needed. I'm going nuts with PDFs that FF don't want to open with my (external) PDF-Reader anytime, just because of "something" (Mimetypes) that obviously are not suitable to recognize a PDF properly, what can by done by fileextension easily; I recognize the files and have to click open every time ... an example is here: http://www.dandelon.com/servlet/download/attachments/dandelon/ids/FL001847F924468B0CB3CC12572670027878A.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065126 Title: "Always do this from now on" does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1065126/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
