Mound DMG's from Firefox

Entity Sander Tekelenburg spoke thus:

  >> Any way to mount downloaded *.dmg files in Firefox like in Safari?
 >
 > This is really the realm of the system, not of a browser, even though
 > Safari makes it look so. Pre Mac OS X you could define post-processing
 > of downloads in the Internet control panel. Since Mac OS X this requires
 > a free third-party uitility called MisFox:
 > <http://www.clauss-net.de/misfox/misfox.html>.
Well, I just happen to have MisFox in my utilities folder, but no listing
for .dmg. I suppose I could add a helper but don't know what to navigate to.

After some experimenting it looks like Safari not only mounts the
internet-enabled image, it dumps the contents on the desktop, ejects the
image and trashes it. That's too much automation for me, I wonder if there's
a way to just mount the image?

Here is my internet-enabled diskimage, in case anyone wants to see how their
browser does:
<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MacFontGadget.dmg" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MacFontGadget.dmg</a>


-- Gnarlie
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Gnarlodious < > wrote:

 > Entity Sander Tekelenburg spoke thus:

[...]

[post-processing]

  > > Since Mac OS X this requires
  > > a free third-party uitility called MisFox:
  > > <http://www.clauss-net.de/misfox/misfox.html>.
 >
 > Well, I just happen to have MisFox in my utilities folder, but no listing
 > for .dmg. I suppose I could add a helper but don't know what to navigate to.

Note that I haven't done this (I use iCab and don't want tit do do any
postprocessing in these types of files), but I'd expect it to go
something like this: in MisFox go to the File Mappings tab, hit New,
enter a description (whatever you want) the MIME type
("application/octet-stream"[*]), file name extension (".dmg") and under
Postprocessing pick the open that you want disk images to be opened with
automatically upon completed download (default is
/System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app).

[*] according to Tiger:
$ less /etc/httpd/mime.types | grep -i dmg
application/octet-stream bin dms lha lzh exe class so dll dmg

 > After some experimenting it looks like Safari not only mounts the
 > internet-enabled image, it dumps the contents on the desktop, ejects the
 > image and trashes it.

I believe that *is* what "Internet-enabled" means. If you don't want
that (as an author), then just offer a plain disk image.

[...]

 > Here is my internet-enabled diskimage, in case anyone wants to see how their
 > browser does:
<font color=purple> > <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MacFontGadget.dmg</font" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~w6zno/MacFontGadget.dmg</font</a>>

Safari (with auto-open safe downloads" enabled) downloads it and claims
to be mounting it. I then find the disk image in the trash, but nothing
is mounted.

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
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