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*** Bug 578990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Title:
  Option to display file in browser, treat as text/plain

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  In Progress
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.

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