Closed Bug 578990 Opened 15 years ago Closed 11 years ago

feature request: offer "show as plain text" option on unknown content type

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57342

People

(Reporter: benoit.hudson, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Clicking on a file whose content type is unknown brings up a dialog offering to (a) save the file or (b) let me choose an application. Frequently, the file is in fact plain text, but the server didn't identify it as such (I see this most frequently with code snippets in relatively obscure languages). It would be great to have option (c) load the file in firefox as if it were text/plain. Reproducible: Always
Do you mean bug 57342 ?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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