285360 - Improper handling of human readable text files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258012

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mark Whitis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Firefox does not handle human readable text files correctly.   For example,
clicking on the link above to a .c file (from slashdot) should display the
contents of the file as plain ascii text in the browser window.  Displaying
plain text is a simple degenerate case of displaying html/xml and firefox
already does the right thing for .txt files (for example,
http://www.robotstxt.org/robots.txt).
 
This should be an option for all files of unrecognized type.



This should be an option for XML/HTML and other seemingly recognized formats as
well.
  - in the save/open dialog ("Open in browser as plain text")
  - on the link right click menu "Open link AS PLAIN TEXT in new tab" 
  - on the document/frame right click menu "Rerender as plain text/View Source"
    Actually, there is a view source in the view menu, but it stupidly opens 
    an unauthorized popup.
  - In the mime types configuration dialog for a particular type, this should
    ALWAYS be one of the options.   

In general, the following options should be availible for any type of file, in
addition to any other options that may apply:
  - Render as plain text
  - Render as combined hex/ascii dump
  - Force rendering as if HTML
  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on link

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258012 ***