# Display Text Directly

> Treat "text/x-\*" as "text/plain"

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-text-directly](https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-text-directly)

## Overview

- **ID:** `display-text-directly`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lukas Mai
- **Category:** download-management
- **Daily users:** 16
- **Rating:** 4.75 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2015-03-08
- **Size:** 9.84 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/display-text-directly/)

## Description

Display Text Directly is a Firefox add-on that rewrites 'text/x-*' files into 'text/plain', ensuring they are displayed instead of being treated as unknown files and offered for download.

## Rankings

- #26,746 — Overall
- #24 — display
- #164 — direct link

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*/*`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-text-directly)