On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 10:39:17AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: firefox > Version: 95.0.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Opening an unsupported text/* file with Emacs silently fails. > For instance, on https://homepages.loria.fr/PZimmermann/CORE-MATH/ > the link "glibc" for acos / binary32 > > https://homepages.loria.fr/PZimmermann/CORE-MATH/acosf-v1.patch > > is served as text/x-diff (as seen with wget, since this is not clear > with Firefox). Since text/x-diff is not supported, Firefox proposes > to open it with > > Emacs (Terminal) (default) > > but nothing happens, not even an error message. > > If Firefox is started in a terminal, I can see: > > Can't locate utf8.pm: /usr/share/perl5/utf8.pm: Permission denied at > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/urxvt/urxvt.pm line 463. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/urxvt/urxvt.pm > line 463. > Compilation failed in require at -e line 1. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. > urxvt: unable to initialize perl-interpreter, continuing without.
Sounds like your terminal has a problem, not Firefox. Mike
