[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 230797] REGRESSION(r276635): [GTK] 2.34: local html file is downloaded instead of displayed. Works ok for webkitgtk-2.32.4

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230797

--- Comment #6 from Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie at neuf.fr> ---
FWIIW, if you start firefox for a new user, and you click on "make firefox your default browser" (yeah, I understand that I shouldn't tell this story on a WebKit bug comment :), then the .local/share/mime user database is created using g_app_info_set_as_default_for_extension, at least on GNU-linux (not tested on other OS'es). It defines a mime type for .html, .htm, .shtml, .xhtml, and .xht.

Whether or not firefox expects to find application/x-extension-html as a MIME type, I have not analyzed...

Besides mozilla apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey), other users of g_app_info_set_as_default_for_extension are evolution, evolution-data-server, glibmm, gobject-introspection, pygobject, libfm, libdazzle, librsvg, and vala (among the packages I have built on my system. There are certainly others.)

I have not analyzed what those packages do (although my guess is that glibmm, go-i, pygobjet, and vala just provide wrappers or bindings).

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