From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: browse-url-of-dired-file vs. .gz] Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:41 -0400 Message-ID: <874pyprqem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150214970 4183 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2006 16:09:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 18:09:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqBS9-0005zI-QL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:09:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqBS9-0005S8-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqBPl-0004d9-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqBPl-0004cy-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [18.72.1.2] (helo=south-station-annex.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqBYi-0002HH-Ov; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k5DG6kF9018626; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k5DG6ikR018834; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd (SYDNEYPACIFIC-TWO-NINETY-NINE.MIT.EDU [18.95.6.44]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k5DG6fjG014829; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by cyd with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FqBPd-0002yb-00; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:06:41 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:13:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 1.47 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55862 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Could someone please DTRT and ack? > > From: Dan Jacobson > Subject: browse-url-of-dired-file vs. .gz > To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > browse-url-of-dired-file on file.html.gz doesn't first uncompress it. This is a known Firefox bug, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52282 This bug has nothing to do with Emacs; opening file:///foo/bar.html.gz in the Firefox address bar fails to uncompress, whereas http://foo/bar.html.gz uncompress properly. I don't think there's anything we can (or should) do in Emacs to work around this. The Mozilla folks are still discussing how to fix it on their end.