On 2/11/11 10:24 AM, Michael Gordon wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> I've been trying to download the installer file for Flash Player >> 10.2.152.26. I get the File Save selection window to indicate where to >> place the file. Then I get a progress popup that says the download was >> cancelled. I select the small retry button (the button with the >> circular arrow). I see that something appears to download, but when I >> go to the destination folder, the file has 0 size. >> >> I've tried this with other installer executables. I get the same result >> with them. I've also tried using Save Link Target As (which is not >> available for Flash Player) and get the same result. >> >> I've tried this with non-executable files, and have no problems with >> them. It appears that SeaMonkey or the Download Manager is blocking >> files with the .exe file-extension. >> >> Trying all this while running SeaMonkey in safe mode does not help. >> >> Is this a known bug? >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) >> Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 >> > > David, it looks to me like an Anti-virus/Firewall may be blocking the > download of .exe files. Try changing the extension to something benign > like .der and then change it back after the file downloads. > > Once you change the extension back to .exe it should install with no > problems. > > Michael
It's NOT my anti-virus software (AVG Anti-Virus 2011 (10.0.1204), freeware version). I disabled it, but the problem still occurred. It's NOT the Windows firewall in Windows XP SP3. I disabled it, but the problem still occurred. It's NOT the firewall in my Netgear router. I disabled it, but the problem still occurred. No, I did not disable all of them at the same time. I made three separate attempts to download the Flash Player installer file, each time with something else disabled. Since the problem still exists when running SeaMonkey in safe mode, the problem is not caused by any extension. Thus, I believe the problem is within SeaMonkey or the Download Manager. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
