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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Firefox - how to get it to open c source file as a
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () ij ! net>
Date:       2009-03-25 19:04:55
Message-ID: 49CA8057.3000105 () ij ! net
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On 2009/03/25 13:33 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin composed:

> 	I have a bunch of c & c++ files in a directory on my website. The entire
> /downloads directory has +indexes set just so I can browse it as a directory,
> just like you browse
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64/
> to find a specific rpm.

> 	Forget mycols.cc for the moment, and let's just focus on text files regardless
> of whether it's a script, source file, csv export, whatever. When I click on a
> text file in Firefox, it ought to display the text file in the browser windows
> just like all browsers have done since the dawn of NCSA Mosaic. For some reason
> firefox won't do this.

> 	I don't want to open the file for editing either, I just want to display it in
> the browser window, so I can do a quick select of the code I want, then alt+tab
> and middle-click insert the text into kate or vi or whatever else I may be
> working with at the time.

Old problem, but since it's open source, you're welcome to provide a patch to
fix it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342

Why not Opera?
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