HTML and similar files: suggest+bug(?) in one shot

[Dret]

Hi again!

On my last session of "exploring" this fantastic application I found this:

While browsing my folders, entering one full of HTML and MHT files, suddely my Firewall alert me that XnView was trying to connect to some internet sites...!!

Than I understood : the program is reading for the external link and objects inside the HTML/MHT code.

To prevent this (for enhance security and avoid another problem referred below) I set as "disabled" the thumbnails view for this extensions...
Infact when there's a large number of HTML file type like (with thumbnails-mode "ON" for them), there's also an high possibility of application blocking or crashing... (probably for the high number of connection trials in a same time).

But... considering that XnView is fully able to render the HTML file type thumbnails during the offline sessions, is possible to set (like in the web-browser or email client) an "OFFLINE MODE" to prevent this trials of connection and the crash/block problem related but saving the thumbnails mode "ON" for this problematic files??

I Know: this is a Image Viewer not a Web Browser... but could be a pretty enhancement!!

Bye... and thanks!!!
Dret.

[Clo]

—> Dret

Hello !

• This is quite right, and rather boring, I get the same here !
- Indeed, an “Off-line” mode should be welcome ! I support !

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

An offline mode is the way to go!

Not only in terms of performance but also from a security standpoint it would be a good idea to exclude by default all extensions that map to the MIME types of what Microsoft calls “Web content files”:

• HTM HTML MHT MHTML XML XHTML EML NWS URL

.HTA (HTML Application) and .CHM (HTML Help) probably belong in that category, too.

Does anyone know how to block shortcuts to Web content files (*.html.lnk etc.) but still allow linked images (e.g. *.jpg.lnk)?

[Drahken]

Because of the very fact that this is an image viewer and not a browser, offline mode should be default. Indeed, I'm surprised that it even has and ONline mode. ....Unless it's actually using IE to render the html file, and thus using whatever mode IE is currently in?

[Clo]

—> XnTriq

—> Drahken

Hi !

• I would put a damper on this, though…

- Our Help Manual is online too, and can be got from a small HTML menu (if chosen), so this is not so simple…

- But for the files to view in the browser and local HTML¦CHM Help files, yes, offline might be set as the default.

KR
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

Indeed, I'm surprised that it even has and ONline mode. ....Unless it's actually using IE to render the html file, and thus using whatever mode IE is currently in?

Yes, XnView relies on MSIE for that.

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