Non-Working Downloads

[Shockwave]

Just a heads up, I've seen some posts recently that there are problems with downloading attachments from here with Firefox 8.

I even had a pm on facebook where a user was worried that the attachment contained a virus.

This is a known problem, you can find some suggestions to solve it here;

FF8 Download Problem

My suggestion is to vote with your feet and use a slimmer and more efficient browser like Chrome instead.. For me the only reason I still like Firefox are the developer tools, the rest of it has become bloatware imho.

[benny!]

Thanks for informing. I first thought it was a forum issue. But "good" to see it is "just" firefox.

... For me the only reason I still like Firefox are the developer tools, the rest of it has become bloatware imho.

Same here...

[Shockwave]

The guy who messaged me on Facebook made a good point..

"How can it go from version 3 to version 8 in 10 months?"

It's hard to argue with that.

[Moroboshisan]

"that" guy is actually ME...

anyway... my point about such a "versioning acceleration" could just explaind with some kind of: "hey ma! look! I'm at version 8 too!!!" rather than some REAL improvements on the background...

[Kirl]

I thought it might've been an issue with MIME types. I once had something similar when trying to download a little test app I wrote for mobile phone from my site, it kept comming out as a .rar while the extension I uploaded was something else entirely (forgot what it was actually). My provider eventually fixed it for me by enabling this particukar extension.

[Jim]

Looks more like the Content-Disposition http header is being ignored - that tells the browser the filename to save a download as which was generated by a script or server (eg. php).

Jim

[Moroboshisan]

Looks more like the Content-Disposition http header is being ignored - that tells the browser the filename to save a download as which was generated by a script or server (eg. php).

actually this seems to be the closest correct explanation of the behaviour.

I've given a try of Shockwave link

FF8 Download Problem

wiyhout any success... so this doesn't seem some kind of MIME-Type misconfiguration. Maybe we'll prompted for a fix in the next few days... or it just depends of some "soon to be deprecated tags" that FF felt some urge to adhere to.

I noticed the problem after having upgraded a Mac machine ... the fastest way to solve this problem should be downgrading to FF7 PRESTO!!!

[slinks]

Is there an easy way to go back to, say FF3 (the last time I remember it being not shit) and locking it from upgrading? Cause tbf, FF still has a load of nice features that I like (one or two of my add-ons, the multi-search bar and the customisable layout) and wouldn't really want to give up by switching to Chrome. I'm assuming there's a crack for it somewhere, anyone wiser than me on it?

EDIT: Found an old setup exe for ff3 stashed away on my hard-drive, but I'm curious to know if it'll just do a silly auto-update on me, or just keep hastling me to upgrade. May try it tomorrow when I'm not half-cut...

[Jim]

The auto-update is a recent thing.  Old versions don't do it.
Jim