1100747 - text/plain file doesn't auto save even after setting mimeTypes.rdf file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58554

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Ibrahim]

Attachment: mimeTypes.rdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141106120505

Steps to reproduce:

With the latest version of Firefox (33), I want to execute a testcase through firefox, which should auto save a text/plain mime type.
At first, I couldnot find the text/plain mime listed under Options -> Application -> Content Type.
So I edited the mimeType.rdf file. After this change, I could see the 'TXT file' content type getting listed under Options -> Application -> Content Type.

I added the following lines to mimeType.rdf file:

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:text/plain"
                   NC:saveToDisk="true"
                   NC:alwaysAsk="false" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:text/plain"
                   NC:saveToDisk="true"
                   NC:alwaysAsk="false" />

and under <RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mimetypes:root">:
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:text/plain"/>


Actual results:

I opened a URL that should render a txt file (https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt), however it didnot autosave.


Expected results:

It should have auto saved the txt file to a location I set in the pref.js file

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

What makes you think that you can override an internal supported content-type by something in mimetypes.rdf ?

Comment 3

[Ibrahim]

I dont know. I did a lot of google, but couldn't find a better solution. Please let me know what should be done to make this work. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Ibrahim]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 58554 ***

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Why do you reopen this bug report ?
bug 58554 is about the same issue and it shows that it's currently not possible to override internal supported mime-types