246438 - Can't handle MIME typed files with browser directly.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57342

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

There are several file types that I regularly deal with (.idl, .C, .pl, etc.)
that have valid MIME types in the browser.  If I use it to browse to a file on
disk (file:///...)  When I click on one of these files, I get a dialog asking me
what I would like to do with this file.  There is no option that says "Handle in
browser" 

I think that this should be one of the settings in the "File Types" setting.  I
should be able to enter a MIME type or file extension, and say "Handle In Browser"  

I would then do this for .C, .pl, .idl, etc. files and I could view them
directly as if they were text/plain files.  

Actually, that would be an interesting way to handle this setting:  Have a MIME
type transformer that lets me say "Always treat mime type X as mime type Y" 
Then, I would say handle all "application/x-perl" as "text/plain".

The browser is trying to be too smart, and is getting a little annoying. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a local file:// URL to a perl file. 
2. Notice dialog that comes up asking you what you want to do.
3. Be frustrated by inability to "view in browser." 
 
Actual Results:  
Frustration. :) 

Expected Results:  
I should be able to choose "View in Browser" as a default option for many simple
text files.

Comment 1

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

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