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Loading Comments Click the menu button and select Options Preferences. Click the menu button and select Settings. When you click on a link and Firefox doesn't have a content type and download action set up for that type of file, Firefox will ask you how to handle the file:. If you are having problems with how Firefox is handling file downloads that you can't resolve, or if you just want to start fresh, you can restore the default content types and actions by manually deleting the file that stores these settings.
Grow and share your expertise with others. Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Your Downloads panel and Library keep track of files you download while using Firefox. Learn how to manage your files and configure your download Search Support Search. Home Firefox Manage preferences and add-ons Change what Firefox does when you For help with download problems, see What to do if you can't download or save files.
For help with embedded media on web pages, see Fix common audio and video issues. In the example below Microsoft Word was added.
At this point you can elect to view the "Applications Details One of the more common issues that arise in the Mozillazine Firefox Support Forum usually has subjects like:.
Without getting overly technical it is instructive to provide a description of the cause of this. Most people, read humans, that use computers are familiar with and understand the meaning of various file suffixes. They are predisposed to the idea that this is "how files are processed" by everything. In the case of files transferred from a web server to a browser, that is not correct. In other words, how a file is processed by a browser is determined by the Content-Type field in the http Response Header; the file suffix should be ignored when there is a Content-Type field.
So, what is the problem? Web servers are complicated software packages. They run from the quite common e. There is virtually no support so the developer had better know what they're doing; which, is often not the case.
To illustrate the point consider two examples. So what can you do? Usually you should try to inform the site's webmaster of the incorrect configuration. The Helper Applications panel in SeaMonkey 2 will open. Here, you can change download actions in the same way as explained above for Firefox 3. This will not affect media embedded in a web page - only links to the files themselves.
Certain file extensions may include multiple entries, one for each MIME type associated with that type of file. The Download Actions window will open. MIME types are not shown by default. MIME types that are not handled by plugins do not appear in the Download Actions listing unless you have previously encountered that type of file and checked the option in the "Opening" dialog box to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on", as described above.
After a helper application or "save to disk" download action has been set, that action will be taken automatically for those types of files. To remove a download action, open the Download Actions dialog as described above, select the file type entry and click the "Remove action" button.
The next time you encounter that type of file, an "Opening" dialog will appear, asking you to specify an application or save the file. Removing a download action does not affect files that are handled by plugins. Firefox 2 will automatically use a plugin if it is available for the MIME type, as shown in the about:plugins list. The Helper Applications preferences panel will open.
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