On 2022-10-08 09:34, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Jan Eden via Mutt-users wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently configured mutt on a Linux system, and cannot display HTML
> > messages in the default browser. mailcap contains the following lines:
> > 
> > text/html; open %s;
> > text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput
> > application/pdf; open %s; copiousoutput
> > 
> > w3m is used automatically (auto_view text/html), and PDF documents are
> > opened correctly in evince.
> > 
> > But when I try to open an HTML message manually, Firefox displays either
> > a permission denied error (with AppArmor enabled), or a file not found
> > error – both pointing to the message's filename.
> > 
> > How can I allow Firefox to access and display the message?
> > 
> I no longer use Firefox on my xubuntu system (I've moved to Vivaldi)
> but I seem to remember that Firefox's security paranoia means that you
> now have to explicitly configure to allow access to files on the local
> system.

With AppArmor disabled, Firefox tries to display the message, but cannot
find the message file in /var/tmp/ – %s seems to point to that
directory.

In Firefox' settings, I did not find any parameter to keep the browser
from accessing local files.

> By 'manually' I presume you mean v[iew] the message parts and then
> m[view-mailcap] the html.

Yes.

- Jan

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