mht attachments

[Je...@invalid.com]

I sometimes receive emails with mht attachments which open in IE. Is there
a way to force these to open in Firefox instead?

Thanks.

Jeff

[propman]

Je...@invalid.com wrote:
> I sometimes receive emails with mht attachments which open in IE. Is there
> a way to force these to open in Firefox instead?
>

I haven't run across these file types yet but out of curiosity decided
to do a quick Google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

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Firefox

Mozilla Firefox needs UnMHT or Mozilla Archive Format extensions to open
and write MHT files. These add-ons work with Firefox 1.0 and later.
Since version 5.0.0, UnMHT offers partial support for MHT files exported
from Microsoft Office applications. Mozilla Archive Format, as well as
opening and saving .mht files, also can save to its own "MAFF" format.
The MHT files it generates are not fully compatible with Microsoft's
products.[3]

Currently Firefox doesn't include support for saving or opening web
pages as MHTML files without either of these add-ons, as of version
3.5.2. There is, however, source code available for viewing MHTML files
within the related Thunderbird project, so in the future it may become
available without such add-ons. This is filed as an unsolved issue
within the Firefox project since 1999 (see bug 18764) though progress in
fixing it seems to have stalled.

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The following FF add-on supposedly is able to read mht formated files:

https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/8051

Also an interesting comment regardin possible infection using these
files types:

http://filext.com/file-extension/MHT

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MHTML Document Microsoft Corporation

Specific Notes [What's This?]
Archived Web Page. When you save a Web page as a Web archive in Internet
Explorer, the Web page saves this information in Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extension HTML (MHTML) format with a .MHT file extension. All
relative links in the Web page are remapped and the embedded content is
included in the .MHT file. The absolute references or hyperlinks on the
Web page remain unchanged and the .MHT file is viewed using Internet
Explorer. Note: This file type can become infected and should be
carefully scanned if someone sends you a file with this extension.

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[propman]

Forgot to add in that previous message....you will probably have to
change your OS's file associations for this file format if you want to
use FF instead of IE.

[Je...@invalid.com]

"propman" <pro...@nowhere.ca> wrote in message
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Im not excited about receiving them either. Thanks for the info.

Jeff