Source files (.java) no longer display as text in browser after upgrade to FF55?
Since upgrading to FF55, source files (.java in particular) no longer display as text in browser. An 'open/save' dialogue pops up. Perhaps a setting has been flipped in the upgrade process or something? I'm not knowledgeable enough to just bang 'about:config' into the address bar and solve this problem, but do find it useful for school to be able to browse files shared by my peers at a glance in browser. Any suggestions?
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Additional information: I'm running FF55 for Linux on an up to date Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS) machine.
What content type sends the web server with this file if you check this in the Network Monitor?
- "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Web Developer
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Network_Monitor
You can prefix with the view-source: protocol to force Firefox to display the file as plain text.
I'll look into this, and try to figure out how to make use of the the view-source: option you've suggested in future.
For now, I think I've verified experimentally that that new release is trying to do something to sanitize data/files that my previous release was not. Those files which were failing to display all began with a wildcard import statement (something like, import java.util.*;). Adding a comment at the beginning of the file results in a change in browser behaviour, and files are displayed as text once again... So, the plot thickens.