Bug#600266: iceweasel: Should display documents with type text/x-diff in the browser
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Fri Oct 15 09:43:04 UTC 2010
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.6-3
Severity: normal
This is a usability issue. When using Opera and visiting a page like
<URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/etckeeper.html> with links to a
patch file (the ubuntu patch in this case), Iceweasel fail to show the
patch when I click on the link. Instead it show a popup asking me to
either save the file or pick some application to display it with.
When I do the same with Opera, the browser display the text file, and
I would like Iceweasel to do the same.
The content type of the patch is text/x-diff, as can be seen from this
demonstration:
% HEAD http://patches.ubuntu.com/e/etckeeper/etckeeper_0.48ubuntu1.patch
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:36:19 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "1e5e0e2-2068-48c4d15906e40"
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Content-Length: 8296
Content-Type: text/x-diff
Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:43:29 GMT
Client-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:36:19 GMT
Client-Peer: 91.189.90.149:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Please change Iceweasel to show text/x-diff files inline as a text
file.
I experience this problem with Debian/Lenny, but tested it in Squeeze
with version 3.5.13-1 and the problem still exist there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=no_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1~lenny2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8-1~bpo50+1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.19-5 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-8 Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
pn ttf-mathematica <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available)
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
pn xulrunner-1.9-g <none> (no description available)
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