Ok, started using FFP after a long while to browse more easily at my local community centre and for some odd reason it is failing to recognise .htm files.
It gives me the option to save them or open with default application (Internet Explorer 7). So I tried change this to "other application... > Mozilla Firefox" then it decided to download to my C: drive and opened it in a new tab in non-complete form as it was trying to rename all the links on the page to places on the C: drive...
I even tried downloading an .htm file and changing the "right-click > open with" properties to FFP but still no joy. It opened in IE7.
So my question is, how do I get it to open them automatically like it should?
Any help is much appreciated on this.
Thanks!
PS
I browsed a few pages of the forums to find a similar issue with no luck. If I missed it I deeply apologise and would be grateful for a link to the topic.
PPS
Doubt it'll help much, but if anyone wants to check it with a fresh copy of FFP this is the link in question http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm
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because it´s not your default browser.
Some solutions :
if you use FFP from a removable drive, then don´t set FFP to default within the tools/preferences because it loses the portablity.When FFP has been opened first, every URL/html will be managed by FFP ( inconvenient, because FFP has to be run all the time). You could use Convey portable (search on this site) and send every html via rightclick context menu to Your FFP. If there´s only your "personal homepage.html" to be managed you could use the FFP.ini to set Your startpage.html as default .../FFP/other/source/ (the readme explains the use of the .ini).
if you use FFP from the HDD, it´s more convenient to install the full local app,
but, of course, you can set FFP as your default browser within the settings or use "defaultmyffp"(search on this site)to run it locally.
So, if there are some more questions, just ask again..
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That's not the way it's supposed to work when entering/clicking a link.
I ran firefox and safari thru Virtualbox and they both would not let me visit the site itself. Then I started Linux and tried it with Firefox and it couldn't reach the website at all. Something is wrong with that website, whether its bad coding or something malicious, I don't know.
cheers
speaking of the special link in the OP. I think it doesn´t need any explanation
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Download.htm on this server.
since it doesn´t work for us, too, and I´ve never found an "intrude all servers" button within the FFP GUI it seems to be the normal browser behaviour
browsing at a community center very often gives you very restricted circumstances,
so downloading whatever can be difficult, and of course FFP is not the default browser, so htm will be opened in IE.Perhaps java is disabled in the FFP settings
I agree my last part of the post is misleading..it´s merely completing the first part, not useful in this case, I see now.
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That site is not working at the moment, but there is no reason why FFP should have trouble rendering the resulting message.
Maybe it is behaving differently now than when you accessed it? Or maybe you had to log in first?
I suppose another possibility is that you reached the page after logging in, and instead of sending you text/html, it sent you the file you were trying to download. Firefox should use the Content-Type: field to determine what kind of file it is, and if it is a type it cannot display, it should offer to download or use a different program to display it. I've seen cases where Firefox asked windows what to use on the file, and instead of accepting the result of the Content-Type: field, Windows just used the HTM file extension and tried to load it with Internet Explorer.
At any rate, you should configure FFP to download files rather than open them with the default Windows program. Then if FFP offers to download a file named Download.htm, you'll know that the Content-Type (or some other indicator) is letting FFP know that it is not a standard HTML file. (Yes, the browser is supposed to use the Content-Type field to figure out what kind of file it is, not the filename extension. Those fields are present but normally the browser doesn't show them to you; see below.)
Another possibility is that it is down now because at the time you tried to access it, the site was compromised and sending malware to visitors' machines. Don't panic or anything, but it wouldn't hurt to run ClamWinPortable to scan that computer and your USB drive.
MC
Ummm dunno what if anything has been changed on the network settings but it seems to be working fine now... I didn't change anything at all in FFP and it's loading just fine now.
"speaking of the special link in the OP. I think it doesn´t need any explanation
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Download.htm on this server.
since it doesn´t work for us, too, and I´ve never found an "intrude all servers" button within the FFP GUI it seems to be the normal browser behaviour"
wk, I don't mean to be rude or anything (afterall only my second post here!) But I don't have a clue how you got that message...I've never had that message on ANY of my browsers at home or at the centre... I've tried with Maxthon, Safari and IE7 at home, and IE7 and FFP at the centre. Only errors I got, were the ones I mentioned in the OP.
Oh well, hopefully the problem won't creep up again and if it does, I've always got all the information you guys provided above.
Thanks again guys!
today I can reach the site without any problems , too. So, it must have been a problem with the server as rab040ma suggested. I apologize for the misleading post *bows down deeply*
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