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

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/24/21 6:47 PM, Casey Bralla via plug wrote:
> 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?

Create a *.txt symlink on the server and just open or link to that?

Later,
JP
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