How Does Your Site Appear in Firefox?

Sometime ago, I received several email complaints that links in my newsletter and on the site were triggering DOWNLOADS of the linked pages to a “temporary directory” instead of opening NPT in the Firefox web browser.

This is what it looked like:

Note, this was ONLY happening in Firefox.

The links were all formatted correctly so I spent a number of hours going back and forth with different folks, then on the Firefox support forum. None of the suggested solutions worked.

Finally, I passed it on to Steve Hetrick, the braniac over a DataWebPro who runs my servers, and he had it resolved lickety-split.

Solution - he added the following line of code to my .htaccess file.

Action application/x-httpd-php “/php/php-cgi.exe

I was lucky to get those comments from site visitors about the Firefox issues, otherwise I wouldn’t have known.

Have you checked your site in the Firefox browser lately?

Cheers,
Ros

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One Response to “How Does Your Site Appear in Firefox?”

terry on September 9th, 2006 17:09 pm

Glad I could help you spot and diagnose the problem. You got it fixed for both Firefox and Opera.
Terry

Thank you again, Terry!

Goodness knows I hate butt-ugly web sites, and even worse when it’s one of mine! :-)
Cheers ~ Ros

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