On 01/08/2022 10:57, gumb wrote:
main content. Now, clicking a link in Firefox from the index to any other page brings up a dialog box requesting which program I want to use to open the file.
This is almost certainly because the file is being "served" with an incorrect MIME-type. Your browser doesn't know what to do with an .shtml file.
I assume there's some security-based rationale for not showing these pages
No, I don't think so - Firefox simply does not know what they are, whether text or html. Maybe earlier Firefoxes made assumptions.
Anybody know a config option or other way to view such pages, or a browser which definitely still displays them?
I wonder if maybe amending /etc/mime.types would help: text/html html htm shtml On my 15.2 system, it's in line 1689. /Per