.PNG's insist on downloading in Firefox

[BlowFish 10]

Hi I am tearing my hair out as some images like the one attached to this thread

 

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/34/vsa-volume-spread-analysis-1369-30.html#post15283

 

just refuse to 'open' for me...a dialogue box always pops up asking where I wanna save the image. Other sites (and sometimes .PNG images here) offer the choice of what I want to do.

 

I do not have an entry for .PNG in tools>options>content>manage file types in Firefox so should be prompted each time.

 

Cheers.

 

I wonder if it might be something to do with the board incorrectly tagging the Mime type but am no expert in that area.

[walterw 10]

I use IE and he he asks me if I want to open.... its normal... I could choose not to be asked..

[TinGull 10]

Yea, Ihate that about FF. Does it in Safari, too for png's.

[BlowFish 10]

Thing is its not all .PNG's which is why I wondered if its an incorrectly set MIME type or something? Drives me potty :mad: or I wouldn't bother mentioning it.

[notouch 10]

Opens normally for me in IE.

[BlowFish 10]

OK kinda fixed it. Suspecting it was to do with mime types I downloaded a FF plugin called Mime edit.

 

I set unknown/unknown to always ask and its fine! I suspect you can do it with FF's hidden config stuff but as I cant even remember to get in there I didn't explore that.

 

I wonder if it was another plugin that messed things up. My hunch is 'flash got'.

[Reaver 10]

I have similar experiences with FF. It is very inconsistent at times.

[Soultrader 12]

Its most likely a FireFox issue. I cant see how our system would affect that. Its working fine for me in Opera and IE.

[BlowFish 10]

Its most likely a FireFox issue. I cant see how our system would affect that. Its working fine for me in Opera and IE.

 

Certainly didn't mean to suggest it was though there is a subtlety there. It is definately to do with mime types though I am not exactlys sure what why or how. It seems as some images are being stored as mime type unknown/unknown those where the ones giving me issues.

 

Getting rid of the file described here fixes it

 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf this re-set that particular mime type to 'prompt' fro action.

 

I actually used a more complete document that described re-setting a couple of internal paramaters but I cant find it just now.

 

I also installed a Firefox add on called mime edit though I dont think this is strictly neccassary. You can however achieve the same effect with this without deleting the associates file.

 

Cheers.