Bug#671748: iceweasel: cannot open local PHP files as HTML

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:18:26PM +0200, Bapt X wrote:
> Does Firefox use libmozgnome.so by default?

It does if you have all the libraries it requires installed. You have
libgnomevfs2-0, so it's probably something else. Can you copy/paste the
output of ldd /path/to/firefox/components/libmozgnome.so ?

> Now the question is why does this library block ability to open PHP
> files without a server.

Because it changes when using libmozgnome.so, the mime information used
is GNOME's instead of /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types.

Mike