Fedora 4 Firefox strange behaviour:

[taharka]

Howdy,

Chris Northwood wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of akonstam at trinity.edu
>>Sent: 25 September 2005 21:26
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Fedora 4 Firefox strange behaviour:
>>
>>On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:55:57AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>>At 1:17 PM +0100 9/25/05, Mirco Scara wrote:
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>>>
>>>>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
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>>>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".
>>>____________________________________________________________________
>>>TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
>>>      '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
>>>
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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.
>>-------------------------------------------
>>Aaron Konstam
>>Computer Science
>>Trinity University
>>telephone: (210)-999-7484
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>>
>
>As Tony correctly stated, the problem is not with your configuration
>(indeed, it is behaving properly), but with the web server sending the wrong
>MIME type. Perhaps you could copy the link and wget the RPM or something as
>a workaround?
>
>Chris Northwood.
>
>
>  
>
You can also use an ftp client to download the file/files from 
ftp.adobe.com ;-)

taharka

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