On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:50 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a Wikipedia OTRS ticket related to someone who keeps getting
> "Download this file" dialogs when they go to Wikipedia pages...
>
> System description is:
>
> >I have Vista and IE 8.0.6001.18813.
>
> Page they keep seeing this on is:
>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
>
> Has anyone seen behavior like this before?  That's a very standard
> browser and OS.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
>
>
That will happen when the "Use external editor by default" option is checked
in editing preferences.  In order to get external editors to work, the
browser needs to be configured.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors

If that's not the problem, then I'm not sure what the problem is.

-Aude




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