The "view-source:" URL usually used to view the source of HTML pages can not be used to view files which have a mime type not assigned to Mozilla. Example: view-source:http://www.netscape.com/h.js This show the "Dowloading" dialog box: "This file has mime type application/x-javascript and cannot be viewed using Mozilla. You can open it with another application, or save it to disk.". "Open using..."/"Save to disk" The view-source: URLs are sometimes used by web sites authors to show source code in a separate window without requiring server-side processing to transform the code in HTML. Suggestion of correction: any file should be viewable as source in the "View source" box, whatever the mime type is. Suggestion of future improvement: the mime type could still be used to select the best source viewer. For example: colored HTML for text/html, colored XML for text/*-xml, text for text/* hex viewer for else

over to Networking.

->me

dup of 15372 ? seems to carry a bit of extraneous info as well as good suggestions. perhaps 15372 is a dup of this?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15372 ***

-> Really belongs in file handling. HTTP is for problems w/ http: urls, not view-source: urls :)

The dupe is in Parser, but that happened before this component was created.

fixed long since. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77337 ***