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Comment by brodie | Hacker News Reader

I'd prefer that it display all text/* content in the browser. If I want to save it, then I'll save it.

Presumably you could add this to your mailcap:

  text/*; firefox '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""

Well then tell Firefox that. You can configure what it's behaviour is in the preferences pane. The defaults are perfect, it's your preference that's different from the standard. Which is why they put it in Preferences.

"Display it in the browser" is not an option. Have you even looked?

The preference pane does not let you create new lines -- the only way to add rules as a user is to encounter the Content-Type in the wild.

Not stock. But you can get it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207

Awesome! I was using a hacked-on 3-year-old version of that, as it was never on AMO -- I even searched for it when commenting in this thread.

Awesome little gem: I went to Tools > Add-ons > Extensions > Find updates -- and it found and downloaded the new AMO version of my hacked local copy!

"Perfect" ?

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