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From: Paul Sture on 27 Jan 2010 13:08
I updated Firefox to 3.6 this weekend and find that it has changed its
behaviour when downloading text files. Before I go through the potential
pain of filing a bug report, has anyone else seen this?

Dialog from FF 3.5.7

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You have chosen to open

example-file-1020-26.txt
which is a: ASCII Text
from: https://example.com

What should Firefox do with this file?

o Open with (Choose...)
x Save File
[] Do this automatically for files like this from now on.
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In FF 3.6, file type Text has been added in Preferences->
Applications, and the dialog above has changed so that instead
of (Choose...) it displays TextEdit, and makes that the default
action. From Preferences->Applications I cannot delete this entry.

The "Do this automatically from now on" option is now greyed out.

This new behaviour is a complete PITA, since I now need to click
on the Save File button for every single download (and there are
over 100 of these I do each month).

I have now reverted to FF 3.5.7

Has anyone else found the same?

(Running on OS X 10.5.8 PPC)

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Paul Sture
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