website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox

[Chris Robinson]

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From: Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com>
To: Francis (Grizzly) Smit <grizzly at smit.id.au> 
Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox
 

The Home page seems to be working at the moment, but there's so many things wrong with that website.  I went to the "contact" page and tried to find the closest service center or ATM, and it returned results for the word "search".   Hmmmmm.


Chris



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 From: Francis (Grizzly) Smit <grizzly at smit.id.au>
To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox
 
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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