When I click on links here, the first time my browser usually gives a popup saying that I am trying to open a file of type application/octet stream and asks me what program I want to use to download the file. The second time I try the same link it works fine.
I found some threads on the Firefox help forum about it, and they say the problem is with the server. Any way you can get this fixed? Is anyone else having this problem?
Can you provide some more info so I can make it fail. What OS, version of Firefox? Which links? Recent posts on the sidebar or in one of the listing pages like promoted or new? Can you still cause this to happen and what are the steps you follow to do so?
I don’t cause it to happen, I just click on any link leading to Less Wrong (for example, a recent post in the sidebar, the logo on top, my red inbox icon). This generates the problem, but when I try the same thing again, the page loads fine. The only problem is having to click on each link twice with a popup in the middle to go anywhere. This happened occasionally before, but it’s been getting worse in the past week and now happens ~90% of the time I click on a link here. It doesn’t happen on any other website, including Reddit.
Thanks for the more detailed description. I’ve no doubt that it is rather annoying so lets see if we can try and stop this from happening.
This could be an issue on either the client or the server. It sounds like the content type which should be text/html and the content encoding which should be gzip is getting mismatched between the client and the server.
Whilst I have no doubt that this issue is occurring, I have not been able to replicate it on firefox 3.0.9 on windows or linux.
The server appears to be sending the correct headers.
Unless there are other people also experiencing this issue then I suspect it may be an issue with this specific installation of firefox.
I would like to suggest removing firefox and installing the latest version which is 3.0.10. This may be a bit annoying and you may have to customize firefox again but it’s a good opportunity to upgrade and may resolve the issue.
If you do upgrade then please let me know how you go and whether you are still experiencing the issue.
When I click on links here, the first time my browser usually gives a popup saying that I am trying to open a file of type application/octet stream and asks me what program I want to use to download the file. The second time I try the same link it works fine.
I found some threads on the Firefox help forum about it, and they say the problem is with the server. Any way you can get this fixed? Is anyone else having this problem?
I’d like to try and replicate this.
Can you provide some more info so I can make it fail. What OS, version of Firefox? Which links? Recent posts on the sidebar or in one of the listing pages like promoted or new? Can you still cause this to happen and what are the steps you follow to do so?
Thanks :)
Firefox 3.0.9, Windows XP Home Edition.
I don’t cause it to happen, I just click on any link leading to Less Wrong (for example, a recent post in the sidebar, the logo on top, my red inbox icon). This generates the problem, but when I try the same thing again, the page loads fine. The only problem is having to click on each link twice with a popup in the middle to go anywhere. This happened occasionally before, but it’s been getting worse in the past week and now happens ~90% of the time I click on a link here. It doesn’t happen on any other website, including Reddit.
If you want I can give you a screenshot.
Thanks for the more detailed description. I’ve no doubt that it is rather annoying so lets see if we can try and stop this from happening.
This could be an issue on either the client or the server. It sounds like the content type which should be text/html and the content encoding which should be gzip is getting mismatched between the client and the server.
Whilst I have no doubt that this issue is occurring, I have not been able to replicate it on firefox 3.0.9 on windows or linux.
The server appears to be sending the correct headers.
Unless there are other people also experiencing this issue then I suspect it may be an issue with this specific installation of firefox.
I would like to suggest removing firefox and installing the latest version which is 3.0.10. This may be a bit annoying and you may have to customize firefox again but it’s a good opportunity to upgrade and may resolve the issue.
If you do upgrade then please let me know how you go and whether you are still experiencing the issue.