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I am trying to open this link in Firefox. Firefox just treats it as a file and asks where I want to save it. But I know that it contains XML contents - I can view them when I open the link in Chrome.

The network panel in Firefox shows that the data type is atom (application/atom+xml). But, in the Firefox settings, in the Applications section, I did not find any entry for atom. I did find an XML entry and changed it to Open in Firefox, but it did not help.

How can I make Firefox show the contents of this link in the browser?

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Erel Segal-Halevi
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In theory you can edit handlers.json file in Firefox profile dir and add application/atom+xml there, but it unfortunately doesn't support the native handler (3) setting and that gets changed to asking what to do (0) automatically, as of now. Which means Firefox itself doens't support it too well.

So a better solution would be to use a plugin like RSSPreview instead.

Firefox has removed support for RSS in versions 64+, including the useful preview feature. This extension attempts to recreate it.

It formats the feed in human-readable way, unlike view-source: workaround that was proposed in comments:

RSS feed example

But, if you prefer it to be raw XML, Display raw xml instead of preview page can be enabled in extension options.

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