276579 - Preference to force Mozilla to handle certain content types

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191000

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

A lot of content type that Firefox refuses to display in a browser windows is
actually text (or other file formats FF can handle internally) and there should
be a setting that allowed the user to override FF's behaviour when downloading
certain file types. This setting should apply to either the declared content
type, the file extension or both.

For example, today I downloaded something that was described as
application/x-sh. However it was a simply a unix shell script which I much
rather prefer to view in FF and then maybe cut'n'paste to use a line or two.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find some link that links to a file that, although it is a text file, has an
odd content type declaration
2. Click the link

Actual Results:  
Firefox downloads the file

Expected Results:  
Firefox should, if it was a file I wanted to be handled by FF, display it in a
regular browser window.

My suggestion is that the setting should be something like:

filetype/-extension xxx/yyy  (.abc if it is an extension) should be handled like
text/plain (.txt)

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Out of the many bugs on this subject, I think bug 191000 is probably the
closest. There is also bug 141666.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191000 ***