Comment 264 for bug 25830

(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).

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.