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firefox-3.0 package

Let Firefox open .log files inside the browser

Asked by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Often I want to open a .log file, which is just plain text in Firefox. However, the browser asks me if I want to open it in program * or download it. But Firefox should be perfectly able to display plain text files.

Would it be possible to allow .log files to be opened inside the browser like other text files?

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This question was originally filed as bug #244529.

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Aaron Tinio (aptinio) said : 		#1

One solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=458790

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said : 		#3

For help with Firefox and File Types, see this link:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3

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