On 28 June 2018 19:13:56 BST, Tim Hill <t...@timil.com> wrote: [snip] >It's easy to think NetSurf really ought to have to option to Filer_Run >any file it doesn't understand after downloading it but it doesn't; it >leaves you to do that which is fine up to a point but a shame because >it >prevents sound and video playing from a link, just as it makes you open >your downloaded PDFs 'manually'. > >I'm expecting to find a utility somewhere which will monitor a specific >folder and filer_run anything saved there but having no luck so far.
Though on more popular OSs many take the opportunity to selectively disable auto-run net stuff for obvious reasons. -- Fred @ypical ink