Bug 624076

Summary:	x11-misc/shared-mime-info-1.8 causes all browsers to stop opening .swf files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	chromium, mozilla, piotr5
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101488
See Also:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294930
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-07-07 07:16:42 UTC

This has been reported on many different distributions, it seems that since this change:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=2d385ff07eae60f9d92bf932ed7e95fa94dc276d

Browsers like firefox and chromium are unable to play .swf videos but, instead, they try to download the file but, then, I cannot find any application ready to open them :/

You can see people are workarounding  this issue reverting the change:
https://superuser.com/questions/726789/flash-files-swf-prompts-for-download-instead-of-opening/783451#783451
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173295&p=2
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218732&page=2

The problem is that shared-mime-info upstream refuses to revert it because that definition is the "correct" one, but, as none of the major browsers are playing with it, I think we should revert it downstream until it is solved in mozilla/chrome sides... something that doesn't seem to occur soon as they are aware of the bugs for years and still no action :|

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-07-07 07:19:57 UTC

I cannot add chromium bug in See also... I leave it here then:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=380347

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-12-16 12:56:54 UTC

*** Bug 590612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-02-26 08:50:39 UTC

Well, I would apply this reversion even with a USE flag because shared-mime-info doesn't want to revert it blaming in "broken browser"... since that "broken browsers" are Firefox and Google Chrome and they also know the issue but doesn't fix the issue... I think we should do this downtream instead of trying to follow shared-mime-info upstream strategy of breaking this on purpose to force browsers to change and, meantime, causing all of us to rely on ugly hacks like editing this manually :S

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-04-03 12:17:10 UTC

I don't know if rely on a "vanilla" USE flag or something more explicit like "flash-workaround" :/