AMO page's description outdated
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The About this extension section of JSONView's page on addons.mozilla.org starts with:
Normally when encountering a JSON document (content type "application/json"), Firefox simply prompts you to download the file.
This is pretty outdated, since Firefox's built-in JSON viewer was enabled by default in version 53 (April 2017).
It would be good to replace this with a description of what JSONView currently brings to Firefox.
Done (for English). I haven't really used Firefox in a decade but it's nice to know folks find the built-in JSON viewer useful.
Thank you very much Ben
If I may, I suggest clarifying the following sentence:
Even if the JSON document contains errors, JSONView will still show the raw text.
...indicating whether Firefox's built-in viewer can do the same, and ideally specifying that this (surely) only refers to syntax errors. Perhaps:
Unlike Firefox's built-in viewer, JSONView will show the document's content raw if it does not use proper JSON (i.e. if it is syntactically invalid).
I have no idea what Firefox's built in viewer can and cannot do - my assumption is that if people are happy with the built in version they will not be seeking to install JSONView in the first place.