[PLUG] Load an m3u file as text file in a Firefox tab

[Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I've got a bunch of playlist files (*.m3u) which contain text of my 
various music files.   I use MPD (Music Player Daemon) to load these 
playlists and play the music.   I also have an apache2 web server on the 
MPD machine running a python script which shows the playing songs and a 
photo of the artist.

I want to put a link on the web page that will display the playlist 
(m3u) file as a text file.  Unfortunately, Firefox sees the m3u 
extension, and then wants to load it as a media file.  If I allow this, 
it goes crazy and starts opening a continuous list of new tabs with the 
playlist file.  The only fix is to kill Firefox.    Chrome is not much 
better.  It won't go crazy, but won't do much with the file either.

I can force Firefox to open the file in a text editor, but I would 
really prefer to open it as a text file in a tab.  (If the file ended in 
.txt, this would work fine.)

Any body know how can I convince Firefox to open a specific extension as 
a text file in a tab?

TIA

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