Here is a simple file URL:

http://sdl-sparks.googlecode.com/hg-...dl/audio-sdl.c

My question is, how can I configured Firefox so that displaying this file directly in the browser is one of the choices? Currently it pops up a choice to let me download it, or display it in gedit. But I just want it to display in the browser.

Apparently the HTTP disposition parameter is doing this. I can accept that it will cause a pop-up, although that is annoying. And I know FIrefox is fully capable of displaying the file because in other cases it does display code like this just fine.

But this is kind of like Firefox obeying some external rules without any means for user overrides. If it can do it, why not let me choose to have it do it? Why is Firefox limiting this?

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It's due to a couple of long-standing bugs in FF. Apparently the devs don't think it's important enough to address them or something.

Get the Open In Browser extension, and you can tell FF to redirect the file back to the browser for display.

http://spasche.net/openinbrowser/

Or else save a local copy and open that.

That requires saving the file first. The whole idea was to avoid these extra steps and just have the browser display it. But, as it turns out, FF has bugs that just don't get fixed.