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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #600266,
regarding iceweasel: Should display documents with type text/x-diff in the
browser
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.6-3
Severity: normal
This is a usability issue. When using Opera and visiting a page like
<URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/etckeeper.html> with links to a
patch file (the ubuntu patch in this case), Iceweasel fail to show the
patch when I click on the link. Instead it show a popup asking me to
either save the file or pick some application to display it with.
When I do the same with Opera, the browser display the text file, and
I would like Iceweasel to do the same.
The content type of the patch is text/x-diff, as can be seen from this
demonstration:
% HEAD http://patches.ubuntu.com/e/etckeeper/etckeeper_0.48ubuntu1.patch
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:36:19 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "1e5e0e2-2068-48c4d15906e40"
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_ssl/2.2.8
OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Content-Length: 8296
Content-Type: text/x-diff
Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:43:29 GMT
Client-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:36:19 GMT
Client-Peer: 91.189.90.149:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Please change Iceweasel to show text/x-diff files inline as a text
file.
I experience this problem with Debian/Lenny, but tested it in Squeeze
with version 3.5.13-1 and the problem still exist there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=no_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1~lenny2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8-1~bpo50+1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.19-5 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-8 Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
pn ttf-mathematica <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available)
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
pn xulrunner-1.9-g <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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