On 7 Jun 2012, Darrell Anderson outgrape: >> > Fourth, is this distro-specific? My system has neither update-mime nor /usr/lib/mime, >> > suggesting that this utility is not universal. >> >> Yes, this is Debian-specific. > > Slackware has update-mime-database, which is why I asked for other > apps besides Chromium to test the problem. If this is distro-specific > perhaps we at least could share how to replicate and also resolve the > problem, and which distros are/might be involved. update-mime-database is a completely different tool, part of upstream shared-mime-info. (Yes, I know the names are very confusing.) -- NULL && (void)