(In reply to Michael Lippert from comment #217) > Addressing this issue would help a lot of power users. I think all that's > needed is the capability to set somewhere (even about:config) that all > unknown text/* types should be handled as internally as text/plain.
I disagree. It's only natural that sometimes the user will want to save the file to disk, sometimes the user will want to open the file in an external application, and sometimes the user will want to view the file in the browser. Why should we force the user to choose on an all-or- nothing basis, and moreover restrict it to text/* types? > There are other text/* types that it would be really nice if they were just viewable in the browser rendered as text/plain, such as those for source files (text/x-c, text/x-java-source, ...). Indeed, Moreover, there are many text-based file formats out there - not just those that have text/* MIME types (e.g. application/xml, and apparently application/javascript and application/json exist as well). > On my system the mime type is also associated w/ the list of applications I select from in the file manager to open those files, so I want to be able to distinguish them from one another (I want to open markdown files with different applications than js source files or script files for example). I mention this because one workaround suggested was just to tag markdown files as text/plain, but I'd rather continue to use Chrome than lose the ability to distinguish the files in the file manager. What kind of "system" is this - an operating system, or a website with an associated file manager? The MIME type is for specifying what kind of file it is, not what the user agent is to do with it. We shouldn't force anybody to misdeclare MIME types in order to work around browser restrictions. We should fix the restrictions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25830 Title: Option to display file in browser, treat as text/plain Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: A suggestion: When you click certain files, like .py or .pl files, for example, Firefox brings up a dialog that offers you the ability to: 1. Open with a certain application 2. Save to disk What would be nice is a third option: 3. Treat as text/plain The wording could be altered... "Display as text in browser" or something. Sometimes you just want to quickly visit a file on the web and look for something in it, and the fact that you *could* open it in a more customized application is true but not really easier for you at that moment. If you just want to look a Python script for a version number at the top it is not necessary to open it in your IDE or save it to disk; you just want to open it in the normal viewing window as plain text and quickly find what you need to look at. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/25830/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
