On 03/08/2022 13:30, Bengt Gördén wrote:
It runs strace (trace system calls and signals) and saves log to firefox.log. When you quit firefox the next command (after &&) is run and greps for "mime.types" in the file firefox.log
It was just to show you that firefox opens $HOME/.mime.types and /etc/mime.types. strace is a nice thing to trace system calls of a program. I use it if something has gone wrong or if I just want to see what the heck a program is doing, syscall-wise that is.
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A blank file with the modified line is enough.
this creates or adds that to your file. echo "text/html html htm shtml" >> $HOME/.mime.types
Thanks for the explanation. Yes that worked. Didn't need to restart Firefox, the changed was effected immediately. What might have changed to make this no longer work by default? Is it likely Firefox itself or a system config option? I can't say for sure if this has only occurred since updating from 15.3 to 15.4 a few weeks ago, or if it happened before that, because it's probably at least a year since I last tried to view this Intranet site. I just wonder if it's a bug or a 'feature'.