Is the right place to place questions about third party software like Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. ?
Vielen Dank.
andy77586 wrote:
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> Is the right place to place questions about third party software like
> Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. ?
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> Vielen Dank.
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you can ask about software available in OSS,Non-Oss,Update,Non-OSS
update and lastly packman. You might probably get answers for other
software present like chrome etc too
You cannot get information about banned software like
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Banned_software
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On 2013-09-15 15:06, andy77586 wrote:
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> Is the right place to place questions about third party software like
> Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. ?
Why do you say that Firefox or Thunderbird is third party?
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:06:03 +0000, andy77586 wrote:
> Is the right place to place questions about third party software like
> Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. ?
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> Vielen Dank.
Sure, those packages are included in the standard repositories, but we
also often help with stuff not in the repos at all. We just need to know
where the software was obtained from and how it was installed.
Jim
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Firefox is asking to download cs(65).ashx. I told it to automatically save it to stop the prompts.
I have a folder filling up with these.
Andy
.ashx is an ASP.net file. It should be handled on the server end. What website is giving you this problem?
andy77586 wrote:
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> Firefox is asking to download cs(65).ashx. I told it to automatically
> save it to stop the prompts.
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> I have a folder filling up with these.
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> Andy
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I can open http://finviz.com/about.ashx as a web page
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That web server is properly handling the code behind the .ashx file. Andy has run into a server that isn’t interpreting a file as ASP, or possibly isn’t handling ASP at all. It’s a server problem, not a Firefox problem.
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> vazhavandan;2585840 Wrote:
>> andy77586 wrote:
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>>> Firefox is asking to download cs(65).ashx. I told it to automatically
>>> save it to stop the prompts.
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>>> I have a folder filling up with these.
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>>> Andy
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>> I can open ‘About Us’ (http://finviz.com/about.ashx) as a web page
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> That server is properly handling the code behind the .ashx file. Andy
> has run into a server that isn’t interpreting a file as ASP, or possibly
> isn’t handling ASP at all. It’s a server problem, not a Firefox problem.
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Yes . I may also be a problem that in the “http header” content type is
not being set properly
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Do you have FF set to open a set of pages / restore the previous session? That would explain the reoccurring prompt to download the file. FF hits the same link whenever it starts, if what I suggest is true.
I haven’t ever heard of an ashx file downloaded to a client directly, but it’s trivial to configure a web browser to accept and render it.
Just add a MIME type specifying the ashx file with how the file should be interpreted. You’ll find plenty of other MIME types to compare and choose how it should be handled.
Used to be an extremely common thing to do before MIME types became relatively standardized.
TSU
Thanks.
Wait a minute. I used to use the icon you are using. 
Are you a scientist ?
Back to the topic.
Could you give me more details ?
I am used to FF in Windows and script blockers and other addons are the extent of my experience.
Andy
A quick skim of related content indicates this configuration as gotten more complicated. Many years ago, this was much simpler… A panel displayed a list of file descriptions and although you had to enter the MIME type manually, it was easy.
It looks like nowadays the MIME type descriptions are hidden as “common language non-technical descriptions.” As is usually the case, this change to make things easier for the ordinary folk to understand only makes this configuration difficult and may even throw obstacles in the way.
In the old days, you would simply type in your file extension (ashx) and then the MIME type which in your case would be either text/plain or text/html (both will allow text to render within the browser). Today, it looks like you may need to open up a mimeTypes.rdf file(there is the default in root and User-specific files in your User Profile) and enter an XML style code block.
This appears to be “the” authoritative reference on this topic
File types and download actions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
But, if you Google terms like “firefox mime types” you’ll get plenty of hits from frustrated Users who tried to follow instructions without the expected result.
Although the world’s move to XML style configuration is understandable and laudable, in this case it seems YMMV.
As for my avatar, it’s one I appropriated years ago on a list of public domain icons and I’m sure the others who were using it weren’t necessarily “scientific”…
TSU