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"Apparently, some time ago someone asked how to build such an extension on the Chromium-extensions Google group, and the answer was that it's not yet possible.
More recently, someone else asked the same question again - so, it looks like it won't take long for such an extension to appear, as soon as API support is implemented.
Meanwhile, if you're really bothered by this and you can install a local proxy (Fiddler2, for example), you could try to make it change the Content-Type header for all responses where it is ""application/json"" to ""text/plain"" - and do it only for Chrome page requests. This will trick Chrome into showing you a plain text view of the JSON data, instead of trying to download it. Be careful, though: this could break some web applications which expect the ""application/json"" content-type.
To implement this with Fiddler, just choose ""Customize Rules"" from Fiddler's ""Rules"" menu, and when the CustomRules.js file opens, add this variable to the beginning of the Handlers class:
class Handlers
{
// You have to add these two lines
public static RulesOption(""Show JSON data as plain text in Chrome"")
var m_JSON2Text: boolean = false;
And then add, at the end of the OnBeforeResponse method, just before the closing bracket:
if(m_JSON2Text) {
var isJson = oSession.oResponse[""Content-Type""].indexOf(""application/json"") != -1;
var isChrome = oSession.oRequest[""User-Agent""].indexOf(""Chrome"") != -1;
if(isJson && isChrome) {
oSession.oResponse[""Content-Type""] = ""text/plain; "";
}
}
// Next is the closing bracket. Add all lines preceding this comment
}
This will add an item named ""Show JSON data as plain text in Chrome"" to Fiddler's ""Rules"" menu, which you'll be able to turn on/off, triggering/disabling the required behaviour.
The overhead is having to keep Fiddler2 running while browsing. If that will or will not be noticeable depends, of course, on your hardware/software configuration."
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