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Jim wrote on [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:49:08 -0400]:
> Just started seeing a strange problem a few days ago.
>
> When doing a search on Yahoo using FireFox. When I click on a search results
> link most of the links instead of taking me to the page they are supposed to
> give me the standard Open/Save dialog box (wants to save an
> application/octet stream).
>
> This only happens in FireFox (not IE)
> Only on Yahoo (Google is fine)
> I have confirmed this behavior on all the computers in the office (Win XP
> SP3/FF 3.6)
> All computers were scanned for virus & malware
>
> Don't want to upgrade to FF 4 (not even sure it will help)
>
> Any idea what is causing this?

Got an example search term?

are you perhaps behind a proxy?

On 04/25/2011 04:02 PM, Jim wrote:
> "Justin"<> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Jim wrote on [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:49:08 -0400]:
>>> Just started seeing a strange problem a few days ago.
>>>
>>> When doing a search on Yahoo using FireFox. When I click on a search
>>> results
>>> link most of the links instead of taking me to the page they are supposed
>>> to
>>> give me the standard Open/Save dialog box (wants to save an
>>> application/octet stream).
>>>
>>> This only happens in FireFox (not IE)
>>> Only on Yahoo (Google is fine)
>>> I have confirmed this behavior on all the computers in the office (Win XP
>>> SP3/FF 3.6)
>>> All computers were scanned for virus& malware
>>>
>>> Don't want to upgrade to FF 4 (not even sure it will help)
>>>
>>> Any idea what is causing this?
>>
>> Got an example search term?
>>
>> are you perhaps behind a proxy?
>
> No proxy
> Any search cause the problem. 90% of the results on any page bring up the
> open/save dialog.
> Another interesting thing is that Yahoo search is powered by Bing. If I do
> the search on Bing I have no problems.
>
>

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