144960 - want to be able to open unknown content types as text/plain

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57342

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

I clicked on a link on a web page to some "foo.cpp" that returned a document of
type "text/x-c++src".  I was greeted with the download dialog, giving me the
option of either opening in in a helper app, or saving it to disk.

Neither of those options is what I wanted: I don't want to save it, or compile
it, I just want to read it.  So I want to be able to tell Mozilla "treat this
content-type as synonymous with text/plain, and just display it in the browser
window."

Another way of looking at this is that I want to associate *Mozilla* as the
application for this content-type.

It would have been more convenient for me had the webmaster on that site set
text/plain as the content-type of ".cpp" files, but on the other hand, they
*did* specify a more accurate content-type, so it's hard to fault them for it
except in that they didn't take Mozilla's current behavior into account.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of '[RFE] Add "View as Text" option for unknown mime content-type'

I'm hoping to get to this sometime in July...

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

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe