108313 - Can't view text/foo files in browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196078

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

I've seen this alot of places, it's getting real annoying.

There should at the least be an option in the helper to view it directly in
Mozilla, but text/anything-unknown should probably just default to being viewed
the same as text/plain.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

-> docshell (perhaps?)

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

Docshell doesn't care what the content type is, so long as a content viewer
exists to view it. Assuming the text/foo type can be changed somewhere in necko
it should display with no troubles. Presumably it would mean either changing the
content type on the channel or feeding the data through a simple stream
converter, plus some front end glue.

CC'ing Doug for ideas.

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

Let's see if XP Apps is a better fit.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

actually -> file handling

Comment 5

[Bill Law]

Post 1.0 feature.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like bug 21985

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57342 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

mail search string for bugspam: SolarFlaresAreTheCause

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

reopening. this is a dup of "view text/* in browser", not of "offer view in
browser in helper app dialog".

Comment 10

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196078 ***