David Looney wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> I notice that Firefox and Opera have the same nasty behavior when >> downl oading plain *.gz files (not tar.gz, or .tgz, I think). >> >> 1. The .gz is uncompressed. Another case of unwanted favors! :-( >> 2. The filename is left as .gz, causing additional consternation. :( >> >> Now, Epiphany works as desired/expected. And wget works fine. >> >> Does anybody know how I can turn off this unwelcome unrequested favor? > > For firefox: > > Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> File Types -> Manage. > > Set BZ2, GZ, TGZ, Z options to "Save to Disk". > > David Looney >
That sounded reasonable and very promising, but when I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> File Types -> Manage I see a dialog with a search line, and an empty table with (3) column headings Exten File Type Action There doesn't seem to be any way to add lines???? :-( (feeling stupid) am I missing something? This is FF 2.0.0.10 Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
