Open saved .mht web archive files in Opera by default.

Ocky · #1 December 10th, 2009, 01:25 PM

Whilst it is well known that Opera natively supports files of the .mht (web archive) variety, there is a small problem.
To date none of the Ubuntus I have used were able to recognise the mime type out of the box - clicking on a saved .mht file would always open it in gedit. Changing the behaviour via Properties>Open With seems to work but then all text files also open with Opera which is no good.
So the only solution is to create a new mime type with the Assogiate (File Types Editor) program available in the repositories. Here are some screenshots to illustrate what needs to be filled in.

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To make it easier to copy the strings in File Contents section, I will reproduce them here:-

Value: From: <Saved by
Value: Content-Type: multipart/related;
Value: boundary="----=_NextPart_
Value: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD

(Type = String)

The XML elements section remains as is i.e. nothing to fill in.

I did touch on this a while ago, but didn't go into detail.

Edit:- The 'default' in my heading is misleading. After doing the above you will need to r/click on a .mht file > Open With and select Opera. All .mht files will then open
with Opera.

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