Fedora 4 Firefox strange behaviour:

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:55:57AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 1:17 PM +0100 9/25/05, Mirco Scara wrote:
> >Hello everybody,
> >
> >I tried to download rpm packages several times from several different
> >websites such as nrpms or adobe.com and others using Firefox 1.0.6 but
> >when I click on to the rpm link which should usually start the download
> >instead firefox attempts to open and download the file using Real
> >Player.
> >Is there any particular settings I can reset to change this behaviour?
> 
> The problem is at the other end.  It is possible to remove any RealPlayer
> stuff from your end, and never play any more RealPlayer Movies (rpm), or
> you can right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As".
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This method does not work with Adobe and the download of AdobeReader.
What you are presented with is not a link and no Save Link is displayed
when you right click on the Download button. It is infuriating to say
he least.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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