Display markdown files

[P1h3r1e3d13]

Files with mime type text/markdown should not prompt to download, but display as plain text files. That's more helpful and more consistent with other browsers' behavior.

As a stretch goal, Fx could parse and format markdown text, possibly side-by-side with the source.

This has been discussed in [Bug 1319262] Mime type text/markdown is downloaded instead of displayed.

[Jon]

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[fabiocosta0305]

This can help a lot, specially if it render GFM Markdown

[P1h3r1e3d13]

As of Firefox 128, “Firefox now supports rendering more text/* file types [including text/markdown] inline, rather than requiring them to be downloaded to be viewed.”

The work is in bug 196078.

Here's one markdown file I've been testing with:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mozilla/send/master/README.md

Can this post be marked as resolved or something now?

[Jon]

This was delivered in Firefox 128 🙌

Thanks for your help in pushing this work forward. As always, we look forward to continuing to collaborate with you all here on Connect.

[Jon]

@P1h3r1e3d13 you're right 😃 status has been updated