Modify Content-Type

Change the response content type to force documents to open in or outside the browser window or in a special view mode (PDF, XML...)

Total ratings

4.23 (Rating count: 35)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Works as expected for many users.
  • Very useful for specific tasks like viewing PDFs and text files.
  • The extension can modify content types effectively when configured correctly.
  • Can render PDFs in the browser rather than downloading them.
Cons
  • Minimal documentation, making it difficult for beginners.
  • Does not work in the latest version of Chrome (72) for some users.
  • Issues with matching filter expressions for certain users.
  • Functionality does not always work with dynamically generated content (e.g., <embed> tags).
Most mentioned
  • Works as expected.
  • Very useful.
  • Needs better documentation.
  • Does not work in Chrome 72.
  • Issues with regex filter matching.
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Recent rating average: 3.50
All time rating average: 4.23
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-05-31
Joel Mora		 en I had hopes it worked for me but I tried multiples cases and it didn't
2024-05-31
Joachim Lous		 en Works. Just be sure you know you regexes, and everything that needs to be escaped (like '+'), or the rule won't match.
2023-08-21
Helmut Karlowski		 Works as expected.
2023-08-21
Helmut Karlowski		 en Works as expected.
2021-09-16
Mark Good		 I couldn't not get it to match on any filter expression. Tested my regex and it was valid. It just refused to change the content type. 🤷‍♂️
2021-09-16
Mark Good		 en I couldn't not get it to match on any filter expression. Tested my regex and it was valid. It just refused to change the content type. 🤷‍♂️
2021-04-03
Syamsuwar Andi Matto		 Very useful Kudos!
2021-04-03
Syamsuwar Andi Matto		 en Very useful Kudos!
2020-10-06
Wiley Sanders		 For experts only, minimal documentation. Would be more useful if it had a feature to snoop headers and inform you of a download's mime type.
2020-10-06
Wiley Sanders		 en For experts only, minimal documentation. Would be more useful if it had a feature to snoop headers and inform you of a download's mime type.
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