Bug#995267: devhelp doesn't load the selected content

[Alberto Garcia]

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On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:46:10PM +0300, Rinat Ibragimov wrote:
> Looks like it's sufficient to remove
> ~/.local/share/mime/application/x-extension-html.xml and then to
> regenerate database:
> 
>     update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
> 
> More information is available in bug #722279, which is very
> similar to this one. In short, libwebkit2gtk doesn't like
> "application/x-extension-html" and decides to not render such
> documents.

Who registers that MIME type there ? I'm not familiar with it, it
looks like WebKit doesn't know about it either and treats it like
binary data.

Berto