gzip'ed text files don't display inline

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

Hi,

this used to work, but it does not anymore. Text files that have been compressed with gzip don't display inline anymore but launch an external application.

Examples:
file:///usr/share/doc/TODO.gz
http://rfc.net/rfc70.txt.gz

I also think that normal text files aren't opened in firefox anymore under a lot of circumstances when they previously were displayed fine.

http://oz.leggewie.org/wip/scim.patch

Maybe I just misconfigured something, but I tried a second user on this system with a clean ~/.mozilla folder and experienced the same problems.

Regards

Rolf

version info:
* ubuntu gutsy
* Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12

LAST VERSION TESTED:
Firefox 3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Firefox 3.5 3.5~b5~hg20090508r25128+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:17:38PM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
>
> version info:
> * ubuntu gutsy
> * Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12

When did this behaviour start for you? In which version did it work as
"expected?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I think the behaviour changed around the beginning of the year, but I cannot say for sure. It certainly was a FF2 version that was working fine, I can't say more. I looked through /var/log/aptitude*, but that does not go very far back (actually, this bug is older than the last relevant entry)

still present for FF3 in hardy

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I think the behaviour changed around the beginning of the year, but I
> cannot say for sure. It certainly was a FF2 version that was working
> fine, I can't say more. I looked through /var/log/aptitude*, but that
> does not go very far back (actually, this bug is older than the last
> relevant entry)
>
> still present for FF3 in hardy
>
>
Please test with RC2 once it hits proposed or updates repos

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
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Linux User# 414246

[Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I'm using 3.0.5 now and it's still the same.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Confirmed this is still an issue in FF 3.0.10

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can someone please look for/file this bug upstream.

I do not expect this to get fixed in 3.0 or 3.5 since they are both stable releases now