289346 - installer opens a an excel file and is just a bunch of gibberish

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 280980

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[James Garcia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

When I download the free version of firefox from the above url is takes about 
ten minutes. When it finally downloads it has an excel symbol on the downloaded 
icon. When i click it to install firefox it opens as an excel file and there is 
nothing but unreadable symbols.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use a mac system
2.go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ and hit free download
3. try to open downloaded file

Actual Results:  
the file open up in excel and I deleted it.

Expected Results:  
installed firefox

Comment 1

[riscky]

Sounds as if IE is treating .dmg files as .xls files... open the Terminal and
paste (as one line):

curl -O
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.2/mac/en-US/Firefox%201.0.2.dmg

then:
hdid Firefox%201.0.2.dmg

Comment 2

[Arthur Wiebe]

James, you can try what riscky said. Open Terminal which is located in
Applications/Utilites

Or if you have Safari installed try downloading with that.
It could be that the mirror you were downloading from did not send the correct
content-type.


Not a bug in Firefox. Marking as invalid.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 280980 ***