383037 - "Choose helper application" does not have the option "no helper needed"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57342

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Often some plain text file has an extension that makes firefox think that a helper application is needed, and firefox asks the user to choose a helper application.
Quite apart from the fact that this dialog is rather broken: nobody wants to
navigate the filesystem to find a helper - saving to disk and typing the name
of the helper is much faster, and $PATH will make sure that this helper is
found in a directory that the user need not even know about - a different issue
is that often no helper is needed: the file is ordinary plain text, and one
would like firefox just to display it. There seems to be no obvious way to tell
firefox: do it yourself.

Reproducible: Always

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(I reported this as bug 382796 and accidently used a Firefox 1.0 browser to report the problem, and the bug was marked invalid because of that. This time the problem is reported using a Firefox 2.0.0.3 browser.)