Depending on the filetype, firefox shows sometimes a prefix file:
(german: 'Datei: '), and sometimes not. Here is a
Screenshot:
I made those dummy-files with linux, and they aren't real files, to check, whether the linux/unix-tool 'file' is involved, which looks at the first bytes of a file to determine what it is - not (so much/at all?) at the extension. Obviously, an extension-lookup is made.
In Unix, anything is a file. So it helps exactly nothing to display the word "file" in front of a file. I like to get rid of that decoration.
How? :)
Update: System is xUbuntu-Linux, Icon-theme: elementaryXubuntu.
A sourceview looks like this:
300: file:///home/stefan/Desktop/kram/test/
200: filename content-length last-modified file-type
201: aaa.jpg 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
201: aaa.odt 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
201: aaa.pdf 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
201: aaa.png 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
201: aaa.txt 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
201: aaa.xml 0 Thu,%2021%20Apr%202011%2016:38:02%20GMT FILE
Firefox version is 3.6.16
Datei:
" is in fact the "alternate text" for an image (the filetype icon) that could not be loaded. I don't know how to fix it, though.alt
for missing small images differently than some other browsers), then please edit (and above all: retag) your question? (When in doubt, show us a link or a relevant fragment of the HTML you're getting? Or are you using Firefox to browse your local file system?)file:///home/stefan/
or other directories on the local machine. No HTML involved.Index of file://home/foobar, \n Change to parent directory \n name, size, change-time
). I added version (3.6.16) info and sourceview above.