Feature request: Add new icons to better show file types
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- JavaScript
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
When the user uplods a file it would be nice if the file icon shows the file type rater that the file icon with a i symbol in it.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
I think it would be nice if cyberchef figured out what the file is and then put the correct image on it.
**Examples**
Example of what it looks like currently:

Example with text file:

Example with a binary:

Bootstrap icons has loads of file type icons:

Contributor guide
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the upload UI and its current generic file icon, then review how uploaded content is identified. Done means supported file types are detected reliably and shown with appropriate icons, with a defined fallback for unknown or binary files.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- bootstrap, javascript
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100