Thanks for tempering my nerd-rage -- having someone else paraphrase your text in a different tone is an alarmingly insightful proofreading proofreading praxis t

Thanks for tempering my nerd-rage -- having someone else paraphrase your text in a different tone is an alarmingly insightful proofreading proofreading praxis that I never would have considered! ------------------- The problem with the extra processes was not that they existed independently of Firefox, but that they were silently useless and caused the browser to crash -- launching 'less' in the background with no tty hooked up is a stunningly stupid end-result. The problem with /etc/mailcap on an install that doesn't have all the GNOME cruft installed is that can have defaults like 'less' and 'emacs' at the head of the list for all sorts of types. ------------------- RE: Decidability, Firefox is already doing content sniffing for the common Content-Types, even they are not anal enough to deny that all kinds of stuff is served as text/html. It's also fairly easy to detect known non-text types, as producers are kind enough to pick novel values for the first few words ("man 4 magic"). It doesn't really even have to sniff at all to get the obvious cases -- if it's unhandled and in text/, display it! (though that still wouldn't handle inanities like application/x-ruby in Ubuntu's mime.types, or the total retardation that is FF's handling of application/json)