Eric Dorland wrote:
reassign 395511 iceweasel
thanks
* Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Package: firefox
Version: 1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
I gave this experimental version a try. Bugs were expected, here is
a long-standing one:
After installing firefox, I removed
..mozilla and .firefox directories to start from scratch.
When I click on a link to a .doc file, firefox suggests
opening it with abiword. Fine!
Then I click the box for "Do it like this from now on", hoping
to never ever see this box again. At least not for .doc documents.
I also get a message that I can change this in the download
section of edit->settings. Interesting - for this is a problem
with an earlier firefox - the download settings are there
but nothing can be done about them.
I "OK" this dialog, and click on another .doc file. The
stupid dialog pops up again! I think it wasn't supposed to,
because "do like this from now on" is still checked. But
it makes no difference. Restarting firefox makes no
difference either.
So I try opening the settings. Surprise surprise, no
download section/tab at all. Oh well, it is a beta.
So I file this bug so it perhaps it isn't forgotten.
Now reverting to an older firefox who also have this
problem, but at least it is capable of opening pdf files too -
something this beta won't do for me.
Did this improve at all in iceweasel?
There is much improvement, although it isn't perfect yet.
The pdf problem was solved - it turned out to be a
mozplugger problem. Mozplugger failed without a working
acrobat present - I changed the mozplugger settings to prefer xpdf
which is what I want anyway - this now works fine in iceweasel.
Clicking on a doc file now opens it - in openoffice. Now, openoffice
is a slow starter, so I'd like to get the quicker abiword back.
There seems to be no way to do that in edit->preferences. I think
this is to be expected, seeing that it is mozplugger which handles
.doc files too. I'll look into the mozplugger setup for this too.
What is lacking here, is a way to specify which plugin gets what
content. This is necessary when several plugins all support
several of the same media types.
Example: mplayerplugin and vlc both support lots of video
formats - or so they claim. Turns out that some video files only
works in one, and some only in the other. This
kind of selection currently seems impossible.
Helge Hafting
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