On 2/11/11 12:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 2/11/11 10:24 AM, Michael Gordon wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >>> I've been trying to download the installer file for Flash Player >>> 10.2.152.26. I get the File Save selection window to indicate where to >>> place the file. Then I get a progress popup that says the download was >>> cancelled. I select the small retry button (the button with the >>> circular arrow). I see that something appears to download, but when I >>> go to the destination folder, the file has 0 size. >>> >>> I've tried this with other installer executables. I get the same result >>> with them. I've also tried using Save Link Target As (which is not >>> available for Flash Player) and get the same result. >>> >>> I've tried this with non-executable files, and have no problems with >>> them. It appears that SeaMonkey or the Download Manager is blocking >>> files with the .exe file-extension. >>> >>> Trying all this while running SeaMonkey in safe mode does not help. >>> >>> Is this a known bug? >>> >>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) >>> Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 >>> >> >> David, it looks to me like an Anti-virus/Firewall may be blocking the >> download of .exe files. Try changing the extension to something benign >> like .der and then change it back after the file downloads. >> >> Once you change the extension back to .exe it should install with no >> problems. >> >> Michael > > It's NOT my anti-virus software (AVG Anti-Virus 2011 (10.0.1204), > freeware version). I disabled it, but the problem still occurred. > > It's NOT the Windows firewall in Windows XP SP3. I disabled it, but the > problem still occurred. > > It's NOT the firewall in my Netgear router. I disabled it, but the > problem still occurred. > > No, I did not disable all of them at the same time. I made three > separate attempts to download the Flash Player installer file, each time > with something else disabled. > > Since the problem still exists when running SeaMonkey in safe mode, the > problem is not caused by any extension. Thus, I believe the problem is > within SeaMonkey or the Download Manager. >
By the way, I successfully downloaded the Flash Player installer by changing the file extension to .pdf in the File Save selection window and then changing it back to .exe after it was downloaded. I had to change the file's properties to Unblock before it could be executed to install the new version 10.2 r152 (10.2.152.26) of Flash Player. This was the first time I found a blocked executable. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
