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Problem with firefox downloading files

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Idiotn00b
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Some sites using php / whenever try to download from them I keep getting download.php as the file instead of say zip/rar/exe etc.

I need to check the link with IE to know what is the extension when finish download.

Some sites using php / whenever try to download from them I keep getting download.php as the file instead of say zip/rar/exe etc. I need to check the link with IE to know what is the extension when finish download.

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cor-el
cor-el
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You can try to increase the download timeout that Firefox waits to get the name from the server.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.download.saveLinkAsFilenameTimeout

Idiotn00b
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Even downloading from Rapidshare instead of a .rar file I get rsapi.cgi file of same size.

Idiotn00b
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Already increased browser.download.saveLinkAsFilenameTimeout from 1000 (1sec) to 3000 (3sec) and yet the issue is not resolved.

I just purchased some games from BMT Micro, I kept getting download.cgi or something file. I am forced to use IE to download the files.

Any other advise?

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