(In reply to Michael Lippert from comment #219) > (In reply to Stewart Gordon from [comment > #218](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342#c218)) > > I think you completely misunderstood what I was getting at, because your > final statement is what I was saying (well attempting to as it obviously > wasn't as clear as I hoped).
That final comment wasn't aimed at you personally. Sorry if it sounded like it was. Really, I was commenting on the suggested workaround you made reference to, rather than on your comment itself. > All I was saying is that if a file is identified with a mime type of `text/*` > that it is text, and firefox displays text just fine as it currently does > with `text/plain`. So firefox can handle any text file it doesn't explicitly > have another process for as `text/plain` to display it **in Firefox**, and > that should be an option in addition to _save_, and _specifying an external > application_ for handling that file. > > I was not requesting that the user choose on an all-or-nothing basis at all, > I wanted to add an option that doesn't exist at this time, but should for > text/* types because the support is already baked in. Which is basically what this bug ticket is asking for all along. I was saying that it shouldn't be restricted to text/* types, because other types may also be text-based formats. Another very good example of this is PGN (which seems to be represented by various application/* types). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25830 Title: Option to display file in browser, treat as text/plain To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/25830/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
