Re: [Epiphany] Middle Click New Tabs Question

["Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil jasonpfeil com>]

What about automatically closing the tab when epiphany discovers that it 
can't handle that file type?

--Jason

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:26, Charles Voelger wrote:
> > Now if I middle click on a link, say a gz file.  Epiphany will open a new
> > tab, and then say "Browser can't open file, blah blah" and if I select
> > "Save" it will download the file, or "Open" will open it in another app.
> > But the black tab will stay open with the URL of the unviewable file in
> > it.  Is it possible to make epiphany not open the useless tab in
> > situations where the URL points to a file it can't handle?
> 
> Probably not. To be certain about the mime type of the file you have to
> get that information for the server. Blocking on server reply to open
> the tab would not be acceptable.
> 
> Marco
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