Comment 266 for bug 25830

(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))
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> 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.
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> 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).