My guess is that's what Firefox uses as the default mime-type if the server doesn't send a header for a different content type? I guess that does leave this in a gray area.
With this being said, maybe it would be worthwhile to explain more of my thought process when using Firebug. I'm a .NET developer so if I'm using the net panel of Firebug 98%+ of the time I'm only concerned about seeing the query string parameters of requests, and any single or chain of response redirects that occur through then. When the net panel is on All alot of requests for the css/js/imgs etc will spill into it making it hard to locate the true page requests themselves which setting it to html generally fixes this. However when shifting from debugging pages to a rest service in browser you end up in the situation that brought me to posting what I felt was a bug. Maybe what I'm really interested in is there being Parent / Parent Only as a filter option that will only show you the information sent back by the server and none of the child requests such as the img/css/js requests etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
