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Idea #10785: firefox should fix MHT file format recognization,because it long standing issue

Written by dragoninsane the 6 Jul 08 at 12:58. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Linux Web Browsers and Firefox should support .mht file,
*-Actually people Don't know that MHT file format is not closed its open That's why even opera supports it
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3311005&#post3311005
Firefox doesn't support and its long standing bug that it wont like to fix see this:
http://maf.mozdev.org/
*-MHT is Good file format that Doesn't create a folder when a web page is stored on the hard disk,just embeds all the images,HTML,XML even flash contents into single web page.
HTML when saving single web page doesn't create folder but when asked to save complete web page saves in with folder with some large name,in windows when i try to delete the folder of that HTML web page it warns that some files that are shared between HTML file and its folder,it will become useless and wont show correct information.But in Linux you can delete this folder easily.so HTML isn't good choice for storing web pages.
Firefox isn't flawless
Tags: firefox mht mhtml

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10785
Written by dragoninsane the 6 Jul 08 at 12:58.
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oodlesofmoddles wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 18:42
+1

My English teacher saves poems that she finds for us in .MHT format and I have to scramble like an idiot trying to find the Firefox plugin that only works with 2.0.

Eldmannen wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 21:49
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

wvengen wrote on the 7 Jul 08 at 09:02
Or somewhat more ambitious: extend gvfs to it accepts uri's in the form foo.mht/index.htm and bar.zip/folder/cool.file . Then all gnome apps could access them; multi-desktop/-platform would need some thought though.

Dementei wrote on the 13 Aug 08 at 06:01
http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html


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