Re: can't "unstuff" Firefox after downloading.
- From: gp@xxxxxxxxx (Greg Pratt)
- Date: 29 Nov 2005 02:51:44 -0500
In article <1133217891.477829.232060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<rbj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>thanks, it did the trick and i would have never guessed at changing the
>extension to .dmg . dunno why they wouldn't name the download with the
>correct extension in the first place.
It's a bug in IE. I found this out a few months ago when I complained to
the author of a well-known application that they ought to be bundling their
software inside of a .dmg disk image file instead of the older, proprietary
..sit files. The main reason they did this, I was told, was to get around
that bug for users who are stuck using only IE (on older Mac OS X boxes).
For as long as they support pre-Safari Mac OS X systems, it's kind of hard
to argue with that logic, since IE was a bundled browser until 10.3.
FWIW, you can get around this issue by copying the download URL to the
clipboard. Open up a terminal window, and enter this command:
$ curl -O 'http://someserver.com/firefox/releases/1.0.7/mac/en-US/Firefox%201.0.7.dmg'
Obvious, replace my dummy URL with the one you copied from the browser.
Never send a Microsoft product to do a real OS's job. :)
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