[ale] OT: Annoying Mozilla Question

Keith Hopkins hne at hopnet.net
Wed Aug 28 18:44:28 EDT 2002


Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I like Mozilla so far, but there is one thing that is absolutely
> driving me crazy that I don't know how to change. I'm trying
> to download files. The link is a PHP script that then allows
> you to download a .zip file, or a .rpm, or a .tar, etc. Mozilla
> ALWAYS asks waht I want to do with the file. I want to save
> it to the disk, but I don't see ANY way to do this! This is really
> driving me crazy since I can't right-click on the link to save the
> file!! Anybody have any suggestions before I boot Mozilla
> out in favor of Netscape (it sucks, but at least I can save files
> to the disk).
> 

I see that too sometimes, unfortunately I don't have a fix for you :-)  But, I do think something is mangling the save-as filename, but changing it in the box doesn't help.  I have to jump over to galeon (which pulls the mozlibs) to save.  Maybe it's time to check bugzilla....

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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