website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox

[Francis (Grizzly) Smit]

On 02/02/12 08:31, David wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> LTS 10.04: I checked for updates, which included Firefox updates. I have
> never had problems with a bank's website before. Last night all websites
> I visited (including other banks' homepages) displayed fine, but now
> when trying to visit
> www.bankmecu.com.au
> I am getting a dialogue box saying something like "you are trying to
> open the file home.html - what do you want to do?" Options are to 'open'
> with Firefox as default, or 'save'. Choosing 'open' just results in the
> file being displayed without styling because its location in the
> location bar is a temp folder. The same thing happens when I try to open
> any other page of the website by clicking on the links that Google
> presents for search term "mecu".
>
> All other websites open/display fine in the usual way. I have gone to a
> Windows computer running Firefox and the bankmecu homepage opens
> perfectly normally there.
>
> Given that fact, is there any point in me asking the bank about it? Does
> anyone have an idea what might be happening (since the Firefox update in
> Ubuntu), if it could be a problem with Firefox in Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
It's nothing to do with ubuntu the problem is at their end, they have 
miss configured their web server, only they can fix it.

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