Re: Followup to my last posting

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On 11/18/07 09:59, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
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> > > > On 11/18/07 04:20, David Fox wrote:
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> > > > Please give such files a .txt suffix so that Tbird knows what to do
> > > > with them.
> > > I wish thunderbird and iceweasel are smart enough to just pretend the
> > > file is text and display it. It is annoying to have to save a file and
> > > open it in some text editor just to view its contents when there is no
> > > reason a browser cannot just display it :(
> >
> > MS Windows is (in this one instance...) polite enough to ask you
> > which app you'd like to open the file with.
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> If I remember correctly, the ancient netscape used to display anything 
> that is thrown at at. You had to press shift while clicking on a link to 
> be prompted to save it. Probably that was classified as a bug and 
> "fixed", but I really miss that feature. Many times, even if the mime 
> type is explicitly specified, iceweasel throws up the save dialog for 
> simple things like a python script, or some other code snippet, when all 
> I want to do is have a look at it and be done. I hope someone comes up 
> with an extension/plugin that provides this feature.

second that.

Hugo