firefox file download question

When using FireFox, if I try to download an ISO file, it tries displaying the bytes in the browser window instead of giving me a download prompt.

I know I can right click the link and select "save link as" and that will work for doing a download, but I was wondering how I can configure so if an ISO url was typed directly in the browser it would not load it to the browser window, but offer a download dialog. I went into options -> content, and clicked on filetypes -> manage, but there it only lets you adjust existing types in the list, and ISO is not one of them. I see no option to add new file types.

So how would I go about doing this?

Never tried downloading an ISO through a browser. I try to avoid large downloads through Fx... tends to slow it down a bit. I torrent my ISO's.

doesn't that require a torrent/tracker to be available for the given file to download?

Yeah it does.

I don't have this problem with ISOs, does it happen with all sites or just one? If it's just one, then they've set up their content type handling wrongly.

I have dloaded tons of Linux ISO's from various sites .Never had a problem!!

wget "www.PlaceYouGetStuffFrom.com/kleinma.iso"

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

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Originally Posted by penagate

Yeah it does.

I don't have this problem with ISOs, does it happen with all sites or just one? If it's just one, then they've set up their content type handling wrongly.

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It was a mirror site for fedora6

I would have used a torrent to download fedora, except where I am at the moment I dont have the ability to open router ports to get BT to work right.

Each ISO direct link I clicked on..

perhaps the problem could have been with the fact that the URL was ftp and not an http?

Files over FTP should never open in the browser like that. How odd.

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Originally Posted by kleinma

except where I am at the moment I dont have the ability to open router ports to get BT to work right.

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I never port forwarded my BT client. Did you check if it really works?

Port forwarding is not necessary for BT operation, however it does improve it. Port forwarding is only require to facilitate incoming connections. A BT client can still function effectively with only connections that you initiate.

In other words, kleinma should have no problem with BT unless the n/w admin tries to block it.

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Originally Posted by kleinma

It was a mirror site for fedora6

I would have used a torrent to download fedora, except where I am at the moment I dont have the ability to open router ports to get BT to work right.

Each ISO direct link I clicked on..

perhaps the problem could have been with the fact that the URL was ftp and not an http?

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I had a similar problem the other day when i was downloading Fedora, i just connected using FTP and transfered the files that way. (I had problems with both FireFox and IE)

The moral of the story? Fedora sucks.

Well like I mentioned I had no troubles if I simply right clicked on the link and selected save target as. I was just wondering with Firefox was acting the way it was.

IE actually didn't have the issue for me, it downloaded the files just fine.

I felt like it was simply a mime type setting that was throwing Firefox off