** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => firefox (Ubuntu)
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firefox 37.0a still affected.
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2014 on Ubuntu 14.10 and Firefox 33.0 (alpha/nightly), still present.
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2014 on Ubuntu 14.04 and Firefox 29.0 (beta), still present.
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This behaviour is still exhibited in 2013 on firefox 25.0.1. It's
trivial to confirm.
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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I agree with Sven; I've seen this happen when files are served as
application/octet-stream; and Firefox should also allow us to open them
once it detects the real file type (at least as an option!),
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I am unable to open any pdf files and must save them on my desktop which
runs 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04. (FF 3.0.13) On my laptop which runs 32 bit
ubuntu with the same version of FF I am allowed to view files, but not
to save them. Adobe 9.1 is installed on both machines.
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Bug also exists on: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;
rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090811 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.3pre
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The problem seems to be, that this and a few other http servers response with
the very generic Content-Type header value application/octet-stream, which
could be any binary data and is therefore not allowed to open directly. Off
course, the more appropriate MIME type application/pdf could be
