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Small (but very annoying) Firefox issue

by biggerdunk
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OK...I have a blog, and on my menu I have a link to view the feed i.e. feed.xml.

In I.E. in goes to the feed page and it displays all properly.

(not sure if I'm aloud to post links, we'll see):

chrisjamesebooks.com/blog/feed.xml

When I click on the link in firefox, the little box pops up like when you click on a link to a zip file, asking me what program I want to open it with or if I want to download it.

My code is this:

<a href="http://www.chrisjamesebooks.com/blog/feed.xml"><img src="i/rss.png" alt="XML Feed" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"></a>

Thank you
#annoying #firefox #issue #small
  • Profile picture of the author Kenton Newby
    Try this:

    In Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> Applications

    Then look for a line that indicates how Firefox is handling XML files. It should give you a drop down menu for you to choose what you want firefox to do when it sees these kind of files.

    Not 100% sure that's the solution though because my firefox doesn't have a line for XML, but I'm on a newly re-installed laptop so that might be the issue on my end.

    Try it out and see if that helps.

    ~Kenton
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  • Profile picture of the author RedMatrix
    Did you ever find a solution for this?

    When that box pops up, just use it to instruct FF to use itself.
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    ~Dave

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  • Profile picture of the author shortguy014
    AlexDushkin is using some program that is automatically spam quick replying saying " hm... that's right!"
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