Bug#497668: iceweasel: Archive Manager fails

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:39:49PM +0200, Anders Boström wrote:
> >>>>> "MH" == Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> writes:
> 
>  MH> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:41:45PM +0200, Anders Boström <anders at netinsight.se> wrote:
>  MH> In the preferences.
>  >> 
>  >> Can you please be more specific! I can't find it in iceweasel's
>  >> preferences. I think it should show up under Applications, but it
>  >> doesn't, at least not for me.
> 
>  MH> Try removing the mimeTypes.rdf file somewhere in ~/.mozilla/firefox.
> 
> What problem did you expect this to solve? I tested and removed
> mimeTypes.rdf. The result:
> 
> I only get a requester asking me if I like to save the tar-file,
> without any option to execute an application at all. And under
> preferences->Applications, only a few content types are shown, and I
> can't add new ones. The add-button is missing!!!

Did it get any better later on ? I doubt version 3.0.x would have been
better, but possibly version 3.5 may have improved the situation.

Cheers,

Mike