The world is full of misconfigured web servers, because those servers just happen to work fine with Internet Explorer. I'm tired of clicking on a link to a .mp3 or .mov file, and then having my window fill with binary crud because the server sent Content-Type: text/plain. (I understand that this isn't a problem in MSIE, since they always use file extensions and ignore the server's Content-Type header.) I propose an option that would enable the following behavior when loading a URL: - get the extension from the URL; - if there is a mime.types association for that extension, and that extension is not text/* or application/octet-stream: - then ignore the server's Content-Type in favor of the mime.types type. Or, maybe only do this if the server also sent a text/* or octet-stream type. Comments? (Possibly also relevant to bug 57342)

I don't think bug 57342 can be solved this way, but I still like the idea of being able to override the content type from braindead servers.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207154 ***