Re: Open certain local files in the browser, not in external application

Achim Schaefer wrote:
> I have a html page with several links to some files with different names.
> The files are all simple text files but they do not have the ".txt" suffix.
>
> When I open the page with firefox and try to open the linked files, it
> behaves differently depending on the suffix of the file. Some files are
> opened directly within the browser window (e.g. a file named "X.output")
> but for other files (e.g. "Y.log" or "Z.diff"), firefox wants to save the
> file to disk or have an external application that opens it.
>
> I can change the external application, but I can not tell firefox to open
> the files directly.
> Note, that all the files are local files and no web-server is involved.
>
> How can I tell firefox to open these files directly in the browser window?
> Can I change the behaviour for all "*.log" files, for example?

Why do you want to open all of those text files in a browser?  That is
not a challenge; it's an honest question.

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