263110 - I am having problems downloading from pages like the one provided. App hangs.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Robert Cline]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When I try to download the stinger program from McAfee web site, Firefox just
sits there and locks up.  I am able to recover by ending the program with Task
Manager.
I was able to switch to Mozilla and download the program, and I was able to use
IE to download the file.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the supplied webpage and click on the "Stinger.exe" hyperlink.
2.Select Save file, in the popup dialog box.
3.

Actual Results:  
The program hangs, goes to sleep, chokes.  It does not download the file.

Expected Results:  
A download box should have opened giving me the option on where I would like the
file to be saved.

I'm impressed with the overall project.  Would like to abandon IE, but can't get
all of the sites I must visit to work.  Keep up the good work folks.

Thanks
Bob

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005
Firefox/0.10

WFM

(superfast server)

Comment 2

[cjanick]

Browser also hangs on second retrieval of news web pages from my.yahoo.com and
several other sites. Problem is on second or third page retrieved or after loss
of focus from window. No problem accessing with Mozilla. Platform Windows XP SP1
with Outlook 2003 also loaded and Mozilla 1.7.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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