Why is my browser doing this?

This may be a Firefox problem, as it started soon after I upgraded to the
new version, but maybe someone knows the answer anyway...

Every once in a while, while I am browsing, Firefox will try to open the web
page as a file (and ask me where to save it.) It will continue to do this
for every link I try to open, bookmark I click, and so on. I found that I
can reset it to normal by pressing ALT. But does anyone know why it starts
doing this in the first place?

Big_Al
Sat Jun 28 06:20:01 PDT 2008

Scott P wrote:
> This may be a Firefox problem, as it started soon after I upgraded to the
> new version, but maybe someone knows the answer anyway...
>
> Every once in a while, while I am browsing, Firefox will try to open the web
> page as a file (and ask me where to save it.) It will continue to do this
> for every link I try to open, bookmark I click, and so on. I found that I
> can reset it to normal by pressing ALT. But does anyone know why it starts
> doing this in the first place?
>
>
If you don't get any help here, you can try mozilla.support.firefox
newsgroup.

sandy58
Sat Jun 28 08:06:14 PDT 2008

On Jun 28, 2:03 pm, "Scott P" <moonhear...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This may be a Firefox problem, as it started soon after I upgraded to the
> new version, but maybe someone knows the answer anyway...
>
> Every once in a while, while I am browsing, Firefox will try to open the web
> page as a file (and ask me where to save it.) It will continue to do this
> for every link I try to open, bookmark I click, and so on. I found that I
> can reset it to normal by pressing ALT. But does anyone know why it starts
> doing this in the first place?

I had the same & reverted back to the last FF

Iceman
Sat Jun 28 08:17:57 PDT 2008

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:03:47 -0400, Scott P wrote in message
<news:urIwm9R2IHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>:

> This may be a Firefox problem, as it started soon after I upgraded to the
> new version, but maybe someone knows the answer anyway...
>
> Every once in a while, while I am browsing, Firefox will try to open the web
> page as a file (and ask me where to save it.) It will continue to do this
> for every link I try to open, bookmark I click, and so on. I found that I
> can reset it to normal by pressing ALT. But does anyone know why it starts
> doing this in the first place?

See the Web-based support forums in your Firefox Bookmarks folder.

See also:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Page_downloads_instead_of_displays

VanguardLH
Sat Jun 28 13:40:22 PDT 2008

"Big_Al" in <news:#gk1qGS2IHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> wrote:

> Scott P wrote:
>> This may be a Firefox problem, as it started soon after I upgraded to the
>> new version, but maybe someone knows the answer anyway...
>>
>> Every once in a while, while I am browsing, Firefox will try to open the web
>> page as a file (and ask me where to save it.) It will continue to do this
>> for every link I try to open, bookmark I click, and so on. I found that I
>> can reset it to normal by pressing ALT. But does anyone know why it starts
>> doing this in the first place?
>>
> If you don't get any help here, you can try mozilla.support.firefox
> newsgroup.

And if your NNTP server doesn't carry the mozilla.* newsgroups then you
can configure your NNTP client to connect to news.mozilla.org.