"Company B's Website & Firefox" Topic

Their webserver is setting the mimetype wrong, firefox is behaving properly, their webserver is misconfigured.

text/html

The other browsers are using mimetype sniffing, which is now considered harmful, because a attacker could lie about the content, and in some cases could open up a door to an attack.

So don't blame firefox, fix your mimetype.

Wow, Crusoe, I didn't understand a single word of that! All I can think of is the old paradox: 'if a mime is in a forest, and a tree falls on him, does anybody care?'

A quick solution for Firefox users is to download the "IE Tab" Add-on, then open the Company B site in an IE tab.

Here's a link to the add-on (works for all kinds of sites that don't like Firefox/Mozilla for whatever reason):

link

I echo Crusoe the Painter's comments, this has nothing to do with firefox it's CompanyB's webhosting company that needs to sort out their mime types

to prove it here is a test page link called test.htm which is on my web space and if you open it in firefox it says hello world

This happens when Company B does an update on their website. They fixed it the last time. In the meantime, I use the IE Tab add-on as mentioned by Randall.

Of course, the problem with the IE tab is that most of us are using Firefox because we don't _want_ to use IE. The IE tab loads IE into Firefox making a big memory hog even bigger.

The website is misconfigured. Firefox is working just fine.

I agree with Crusoe and Musketeer Mike, it sounds like their mime type is incorrectly configured on the web server:

text/html                 html htm

I am able to open Musketeer Mike's "test.htm" file just fine, but Company B's website causes the pop-up to download their .htm file.

I am currently running Firefox version 2.0.0.18.

I feel your pain about IE Tab, but that's life with firefox. There are certain things that only work well in IE. I use IE View, but there's only a handful of sites I need it for, mostly work related sites.

I ran the W3C Markup Validation Service on the website, you'll find it at validator.w3.org/. They point out the problem with the mime type. Good luck fixing it!

"I feel your pain about IE Tab, but that's life with firefox. There are certain things that only work well in IE. I use IE View, but there's only a handful of sites I need it for, mostly work related sites."

I've been using linux exclusively for many years now, and have yet to find a site that really, really requires IE. I've encountered the occasional site that checks the User Agent and disallows any but IE, but when I spoof the User Agent string to pretend it is IE, everything works fine.

Ironically, I also have MSIE 4, 5 and 6 on my system running on WINE which I use only to check any websites I develop also work under MSIE.