Firefox not allow some kinds of downloads.

[Lars]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> Using the current version of Firefox on FC4-development, I'm unable to
> save some files to disk.
> 
> Here's an example: http://www.senseabilities.com.au/education
> 
> Neither of the PDFs on this page can be saved to disk or opened in an
> application (the OK button is greyed out)
> 
> The PDF's were created using OOo2, and the downloads are being handled
> using a CGI script that check the authenticity of the downloader before
> offering the file for download.  All of this works fine on earlier
> versions of Firefox as far as I'm aware.
> 
> Oh, and I'm using firefox-1.0-8
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 

worksforme
but maybe removing the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/somerandomchars.default/mimeTypes.rdf
helps ?

cheers
lars