On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:29:49PM -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2008-06-30 at 11:38 -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > > At some point firefox changed from defaulting to save many filetypes to > > disk to defaulting to a "helper application" or "viewer" or whatever > > they call it. I used to save pdfs, but now they default to opening, > > with a loss of the original filename. I used to default to saving zips > > but they now default to being opened with WINE. This one perplexes me. > > Self-extracting .zip files have .exe prelude, don't they? So they're > Windows executables.
Self extracting .zip files have .exe postlude, if they want to self-extract on windows (they do). Non self extracting zip files end in .zip, by convention. This convention can be of course intentionally not followed. But that's all an aside. When I download actual windows .exe, Firefox defaults to running it in WINE also. This might be a Debian hate. -josh
