Re: address@hidden: browse-url-of-dired-file vs. .gz]

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Could someone please DTRT and ack?
>
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Subject: browse-url-of-dired-file vs. .gz
> To: address@hidden
>
> browse-url-of-dired-file on file.html.gz doesn't first uncompress it.

This is a known Firefox bug, see

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52282

This bug has nothing to do with Emacs; opening file:///foo/bar.html.gz
in the Firefox address bar fails to uncompress, whereas
http://foo/bar.html.gz uncompress properly.  I don't think there's
anything we can (or should) do in Emacs to work around this.  The
Mozilla folks are still discussing how to fix it on their end.