I'm wondering if someone can explain why the useful ability to manually
manipulate mimetypes is not readily available in Firefox Extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=Mime+Type+Editor+0.2&type=A&app=firefox
(Or search on "mime" or "mime type" in extensions)
But this extension to change/add mimetypes does exist but is
unreferenced at the Firefox site (and almost invisible in a Google search):
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?s=635629dddf8f0d7da54b1f53a5659b3c&showtopic=179&hl=mime
I'm trying to look at this from the POV of someone that is either a
non-tech person who could benefit from using/switching to Firefox or a
person who objects to using Firefox because something like this is not
readily available as it may be in a browser with which they are more
familiar.
Before I tracked this down I found all sorts of info involving editing
the mimeTypes.rdf file and so forth which is beneath useless in this
context. Maybe someone can bring me up to speed on the way Firefox looks
at how the end user is supposed to handle situations like this.
TIA,
RBW
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