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  1. Apr 6th, 2007, 02:09 PM #1
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    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?
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  2. Apr 6th, 2007, 02:10 PM #2
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    Re: firefox file download question

    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.
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  3. Apr 6th, 2007, 02:12 PM #3
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    Re: firefox file download question

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

    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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    Re: firefox file download question

    I have dloaded tons of Linux ISO's from various sites .Never had a problem!!
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    Re: firefox file download question

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

    http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
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  8. Apr 6th, 2007, 02:35 PM #7
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    Re: firefox file download question

    Quote 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.
    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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  9. Apr 6th, 2007, 02:41 PM #8
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    Re: firefox file download question

    Files over FTP should never open in the browser like that. How odd.
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    Re: firefox file download question

    Quote 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.

    I never port forwarded my BT client. Did you check if it really works?
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    Re: firefox file download question

    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.
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    Re: firefox file download question

    In other words, kleinma should have no problem with BT unless the n/w admin tries to block it.
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    Re: firefox file download question

    Quote 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?
    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)

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    Re: firefox file download question

    The moral of the story? Fedora sucks.
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  16. Apr 6th, 2007, 07:45 PM #14
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    Re: firefox file download question

    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
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