12937 - Mozilla does not recognize .ARJ format

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jeremy Browne (no email)]

Just posting because of a desire to see Mozilla recognize some of the less
common compression formats as binary files for download.  (out of the box, so to
speak)

.ACE, .RAR, .ARJ, etc.

Navigator/Communicator 4+ doesn't recognize them either, but they could be added
manually.

Or are the known file types just imported from the Windows Registry, with very
few hard coded?

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Moving to Networking.  Is that the right place for this?  Or would plugins be
better...?

Do these file formats have MIME types?  It's the MIME type that matters, not the
extension.

Comment 2

[leger]

Resetting QA Contact.

Comment 3

[leger]

Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.

Comment 4

[Gagan]

convertors?->ruslan

Comment 5

[ruslan]

are we sure we want to do this at all?

Comment 6

[Warren Harris]

This should go to davidm.

Comment 7

[davidm]

If some one tells me the mime type I'll add it. Other wise it will be up  to the 
user. I am not sure what beta2 is but we wouldn't hold any release for this. 
Move to m16.

Comment 8

[davidm]

added application/x-arj

Comment 9

[Tom Everingham]

verified