Currently on non-Mac platform, firefox will decompression the content while
loading resource with MIME type "application/mac-binhex40". This introduces
the confusion like bug 1390708 when Firefox trying to decode BinHex file.
On Mac platform we already disabled stream decoding of BinHex file.

I tested with Google Chrome 61, Internet Explorer 11, and Safari 11. All
these browsers treat BinHex file as binary file and trigger file download
directly.

I intent to remove all the code that handling BinHex decoding, i.e.
nsBinHex.cpp, from mozilla-central if no other project is using it. This
will happen on Firefox 58 if no objection on mailing list and in bug
1390708.

Best Regards,
Shih-Chiang Chien
Mozilla Taiwan
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