You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to monq's post on May 21, What application did you use to initially open the file with?
Thank you so much! This worked. Finally, an end to this very frustrating situation. In reply to Daniela's post on September 17, I could not get monq's post to work.
There is no "press print" top right. How did you do it?!? It is a free tool that can identify more than 11, different kinds of files - most likely yours too! It will help you find software that can handle your specific type of file. Download File Analyzer here. Update info Upload example file. If you know one, please use the 'Suggest a program' link below and tell us about it! The information in this section also applies, in general, to SeaMonkey 2.
The information applies generally although the pictures shown below are what would appear on a Mac. When Firefox 3 or above is first installed, there are two possibilities. First is a clean install with no previous profile and the second is an install with a previous profile likely from Firefox 2. In the first case the Applications tab will only contain a list of files handled by installed plug-ins plus a few other defaults such as mailto.
In the case of a second install with an existing profile from Firefox 2, the Applications tab may contain file types added for Firefox 2 requiring external applications as show in the figure for PowerPoint.
As noted above for file types not already in the Applications tab, the first time you attempt to download a new file type the window at the right pops up. For this example a Rich Text Format or rtf file is used called test. At this point you can either elect to "Save File" initial default or "Open with".
If you select "Open with", you can then navigate after clicking the "Choose Once you have made a selection, checking the box "Do this automatically for files like this from now on.
If at some point you decide to change the default action, you can open the action drop down and select "Use other 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.
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