[Alpine-info] Viewing html attachment opens new Safari

[Duarte Fernandes Rocha]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


>

> If I try to view an html part of a message _in an external viewer_, it

> launches a new copy of Safari.

>

> But if I view image attachments, or open rdar links (from my other recent

> message), it uses the already-running copy of the app.

>

> (I don't typically view html parts in an external viewer -- I'm actually

> trying to reproduce an OS bug I previously saw when I accidentally opened

> an html attachment.)

>

> Anyway -- does anybody know if this particular issue is somehow

> an OS X or Safari issue?  Since other attachment types seem to work properly,

> I'm not quite sure whose issue it is.


Don't know if it's Safari or OS X issue , but you can select which
external program you want to open when viewing text/html attachments ,
for instance if i want to view them in firefox:
( the file goes to the same place where you have .pinerc )
~$ vim .mailcap

text/html; /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -new-tab  %s;

and when i select to view it in an external viewer it opens it in a
previous open firefox app, if any is already running otherwise it opens a
new one. so you can check if there is a an option on safari for 
something like this or else you can always switch to firefox ;)

.note
or if you want to open it in a new window:

text/html; /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -new-window  %s;

regards


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