Reviews for Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer by simov
Review by Ziah
Rated 3 out of 5
by Ziah, 7 years agoOf all the markdown extensions I like the way this one looks the most. I'm bummed that it totally doesn't work.
Just getting file:// URLs to open in firefox is a huge pain. Whenever I open markdown files, Firefox just wants to download them. See here to fix: https://superuser.com/questions/696361/how-to-get-the-markdown-viewer-addon-of-firefox-to-work-on-linux/1175837#1175837
Edit: This isn't the fault of the extension
The way the superuser article fixes the problem involves making all markdown files part of the text/plain mimetype but other apps on KDE (and possibly other 'DEs) use the text/markdown mimetype differently than text/plain. So I went into about:config and changed helpers.private_mime_types_file to a custom file (e.g. ~/.firefox-mime.types) to separate firefox's mimetypes from the rest of my system. I then added "text/plain md markdown" in that file. The problem is due to the way firefox handles files and mimetypes.
Edit: Again, this isn't a problem with the extension but does make it tricky to set up.
With this extension, when I open a markdown page, about half the time I just get a blank white page and half the time I see the file. Whenever I enable markdown or change markdown settings, the page reloads and I almost always get back to the blank white page.
When I open the addon's settings page, there are some pretty bad graphical glitches, everything is squished together and the bottom border just keeps slowly inching farther and farther down my screen.
Just getting file:// URLs to open in firefox is a huge pain. Whenever I open markdown files, Firefox just wants to download them. See here to fix: https://superuser.com/questions/696361/how-to-get-the-markdown-viewer-addon-of-firefox-to-work-on-linux/1175837#1175837
Edit: This isn't the fault of the extension
The way the superuser article fixes the problem involves making all markdown files part of the text/plain mimetype but other apps on KDE (and possibly other 'DEs) use the text/markdown mimetype differently than text/plain. So I went into about:config and changed helpers.private_mime_types_file to a custom file (e.g. ~/.firefox-mime.types) to separate firefox's mimetypes from the rest of my system. I then added "text/plain md markdown" in that file. The problem is due to the way firefox handles files and mimetypes.
Edit: Again, this isn't a problem with the extension but does make it tricky to set up.
With this extension, when I open a markdown page, about half the time I just get a blank white page and half the time I see the file. Whenever I enable markdown or change markdown settings, the page reloads and I almost always get back to the blank white page.
When I open the addon's settings page, there are some pretty bad graphical glitches, everything is squished together and the bottom border just keeps slowly inching farther and farther down my screen.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe file:// URL issue is related to how Firefox handles markdown mime types. So unless Firefox do something about it I can do little, reminder, this is a Browser Extension for Firefox > 57, meaning that I don't have unrestricted access to the user's system.
About the blank page issue, that was caused by interference with other extensions and it was fixed on Chrome, I just have to publish the new version here.
About the settings page, you have to open it from the extension's popup in a separate window. The advanced options page is not optimized for the Firefox builtin extensions view.
EDIT: The 'Blank Page Issue' should be fixed now in v3.8
About the blank page issue, that was caused by interference with other extensions and it was fixed on Chrome, I just have to publish the new version here.
About the settings page, you have to open it from the extension's popup in a separate window. The advanced options page is not optimized for the Firefox builtin extensions view.
EDIT: The 'Blank Page Issue' should be fixed now in v3.8
72 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20143456, 2 days agodoesn't appear to do anything. Cannot follow what the video is telling me to do.
- Rated 3 out of 5by DC, 8 days agoGot it to work for Firefox Windows - eventually. Documentation on git not so good - watch the vimeo vid very carefully at start. It requires "Access your data for all websites". If you you go into the Addons > markdown viewer > manage > permissions: toggle "Access your data for all websites" it will NOT work. This setting will NOT stick. You will navigate, away come back, close firefox, whatevs and it will have reverted to OFF. HOWEVER, if you do as the video does at 00:30-00:40, you will receive the pop-up "Access your data for all websites" it will then work. NB. This is a brand-newey fresh install on windows. not a single other thing installed. It may well be a bug of firefox. I wasted a bit of time working this out. Given it's free, I prefer to give helpful feedback. Doc needs to be a bit more explicit - neither I nor AI picked it up. Thanks for the tool.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 20091096, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18804951, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Larry Marburger, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12752960, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by The Dude, 6 months agoDoesn't do anything. Firefox opens .md files as plain text, clicking on the extension icon only sets settings.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19777291, 6 months agotook a little bit of work to get file:// loads to render but was prompted to enable all sites and it's working now.
- Rated 1 out of 5by リンク先URL最終部をコピー, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel V. Lenskiy, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19666941, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19513337, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by 00, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19078683, a year agoI installed in Firefox and followed the instructions to modify permissions but NEVER got it to work. Firefox would always display local files as plain text, never rendered. Perhaps a Firefox issue, perhaps some tricky configuration issue, but for me, wasted time trying to make it work. Removed the extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14481285, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chester, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18719343, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by william smith, 2 years agoGreat extension.
BTW, Is there a way that i can replace '..' with any other character as the parent path？ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16303081, 2 years agoDoes not register the .md file extension with the browser, so any attempt to open a markdown file leads to the Firefox "open with..." dialog. An alternative would be to add an "Open" button to this extension's panel, and have it properly open markdown files inside the browser pane. Otherwise this extension does not work at all because it is totally incapable of opening any markdown file.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHave a look at this thread: https://github.com/simov/markdown-viewer/issues/213
Also, while I understand your frustration, this review section is for rating the extension itself, where the above mentioned issue is caused by a misconfiguration on your Operating System (or Browser) and it is outside of the control of the extension.
There are other channels where you can share your issue and get support from others experiencing the same. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mertbikoss, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18223088, 2 years ago