From: Andy Hill (adhill_at_nerdshack.com)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 15:16:34 PST
Dear All,
Many thanks to everyone who made suggestions on my query.After some
further attempts I downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox,
version 1.5 and the problem has not reoccurred.
Kind regards
Andy
Roland Roberts wrote:
>>Did you look in Edit->Preferences, select Download and see if ".pkg" is
>>listed?
>>Additionally, I've found that *some* sites set the wrong mime-type on
>>.pkg files which causes the browser to try to load them as text :-( If
>>the server sends the wrong mime-type, the only thing you can do is
>>remember to right-click on the link instead of (normal) left-click.
>
Andy Hill wrote:
>I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser and have trouble when attempting to download packages onto my PC
>When I click on a package, the Save As dialogue box no longer appears
>instead the file is translated into a jumble of text inside the browser window itself?
>I have looked through the options to try and adjust this but to no avail.
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