Mozilla and JPEGs

I just downloaded Mozilla 1.4, and notice that it is being utterly
stupid about opening JPEGs.

First of all, if you have a JPEG on a web page, it displays just find.

So, you'd think if you opened up a URL to content-type JPEG, it would
display it...BUT NO!!

It comes up with a dialog saying it doesn't know how to open the file,
and prompts you how you want to open it.

IT GETS BETTER!!

There's a checkbox at the bottom of this dialog that says "don't ask
me again". IT DON'T WORK!!!!

That nuisance dialog keeps coming back every stinking time even though
I uncheck the box so it won't ask me again.

Better yet, the link to the JPEG is set up as "open in a new browser
window" i.e. - target="_base". So not only do you get grief in the
form of a moronic dialog, but you also get new browser windows
sprouting up over and over and over again.

Anybody know how to fix this???

-J

James

In article <>,
says...
> I just downloaded Mozilla 1.4, and notice that it is being utterly
> stupid about opening JPEGs.
>
> First of all, if you have a JPEG on a web page, it displays just find.
>
> So, you'd think if you opened up a URL to content-type JPEG, it would
> display it...BUT NO!!
>
> It comes up with a dialog saying it doesn't know how to open the file,
> and prompts you how you want to open it.
>
> IT GETS BETTER!!
>
> There's a checkbox at the bottom of this dialog that says "don't ask
> me again". IT DON'T WORK!!!!
>
> That nuisance dialog keeps coming back every stinking time even though
> I uncheck the box so it won't ask me again.
>
> Better yet, the link to the JPEG is set up as "open in a new browser
> window" i.e. - target="_base". So not only do you get grief in the
> form of a moronic dialog, but you also get new browser windows
> sprouting up over and over and over again.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this???
>

It all works fine on my system, moz daily build 1.5a-0704 on WinXP.

James <> wrote:

>So not only do you get grief in the
>form of a moronic dialog, but you also get new browser windows
>sprouting up over and over and over again.
>
>Anybody know how to fix this???
Wow; at least I don't have _that_. It requests of me instructions
for .zip file disposition at least once per session. I'd like to know,
too.
--
Derald Martin

Yes go back to 1.0.2 thats what I did and everything has worked fine since.
Brian.

James wrote:
> I just downloaded Mozilla 1.4, and notice that it is being utterly
> stupid about opening JPEGs.
>
> First of all, if you have a JPEG on a web page, it displays just find.
>
> So, you'd think if you opened up a URL to content-type JPEG, it would
> display it...BUT NO!!
>
> It comes up with a dialog saying it doesn't know how to open the file,
> and prompts you how you want to open it.
>
> IT GETS BETTER!!
>
> There's a checkbox at the bottom of this dialog that says "don't ask
> me again". IT DON'T WORK!!!!
>
> That nuisance dialog keeps coming back every stinking time even though
> I uncheck the box so it won't ask me again.
>
> Better yet, the link to the JPEG is set up as "open in a new browser
> window" i.e. - target="_base". So not only do you get grief in the
> form of a moronic dialog, but you also get new browser windows
> sprouting up over and over and over again.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this???
>
> -J
>

> I just downloaded Mozilla 1.4, and notice that it is being utterly
> stupid about opening JPEGs.
>
> First of all, if you have a JPEG on a web page, it displays just find.
>
> So, you'd think if you opened up a URL to content-type JPEG, it would
> display it...BUT NO!!
>
> It comes up with a dialog saying it doesn't know how to open the file,
> and prompts you how you want to open it.
>
> IT GETS BETTER!!
>
> There's a checkbox at the bottom of this dialog that says "don't ask
> me again". IT DON'T WORK!!!!
>
> That nuisance dialog keeps coming back every stinking time even though
> I uncheck the box so it won't ask me again.
>
> Better yet, the link to the JPEG is set up as "open in a new browser
> window" i.e. - target="_base". So not only do you get grief in the
> form of a moronic dialog, but you also get new browser windows
> sprouting up over and over and over again.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this???
>
> -J
>

I've heard it happens when your server sends incorrect content type to
Mozilla. Mozilla doesn't recognize file types by their extensions but it
trusts the information sent by a web server. It may seem strange but
it's the way recommended by W3C.
So I think you should contact the administrator of the web page you're
experiencing problems with and ask them to fix their server's configuration.

Cheers,
Serengeti


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