[buug] firefox/iceweasel: how to auto-gunzip files

Claude Rubinson cjr at grundrisse.org
Sat Mar 12 00:10:40 PST 2011


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:46:38PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> You have chose to open
> 
> foo.html.gz
> 
> which is a: gzip
> 
> What should iceweasel do with this file?
> 
> And of course there is no good answer, or the good answer would be like
> "gunzip and render it, dammit!"  How _can_ I force iceweasel to do just that??
> Or do you other Debian users also run apache on every box?

Would zrun (part of Joey Hess' moreutils package) do the job?

Claude



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