I have tried everything I can think of. I have changed the mime type 100 times. Changed the headers 400 times. I've looked through stack over flow a dozen times. This works fine in Chrome. Soon as I go to download in Firefox it thinks it's a xlsx file, or a binary file. It even opens as an xlsx but it doesn't think it's a csv so the columns aren't seperated. If I save the file(instead of just hit open) it doesn't even put the extension on. I haven't even got to IE yet so this is kind of worrying me.
101 rows Download Firefox in your language Firefox is made in large part by volunteers around the. Firefox won't download files anymore!!!! User Help for Mozilla Firefox. I'm not sure what's happened to FF, but I can't download files with it anymore.
If you have the Adobe Reader installed in your computer, then proceed with the steps below to set it up to view the PDF files, and if not, first download it from this link: Adobe Reader. Go to Options from the Firefox Menu, and select the Applications Tab. Firefox worked in Windows 8 before, but just recently it will not run. So I went to download the latest to install again, but interestingly, it would not even download in IE10!! I managed to download it in Chrome. But it will not install in Windows 8 Pro 64 bit!! I tried installing it as administrator.
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I've tried text/csv, application/csv, application/binary, application/octet-stream.
Thanks for any help.
Safari, Opera and Chrome work fine. Haven't tried IE.
Ok this entire time it was a spacing issue. My file name was 'file name.csv' and this works in every browser except firefox. Soon as I put my file name to 'filename.csv with no spaces it downloaded it find. I didn't notice that when it was downloading it was only downloading the first part of the name before the space. Good luck!
Drew H
Drew HDrew H
6 Answers
I had the same issue in PHP and found adding double quotes for the file name fixes the problem.
My Firefox Will Not Load
OharringtonOharrington
Ok this entire time it was a spacing issue. My file name was 'file name.csv' and this works in every browser except firefox. Soon as I put my file name to 'filename.csv with no spaces it downloaded it find. I didn't notice that when it was downloading it was only downloading the first part of the name before the space.
In the future make sure the filename has a single quote around it in the header. This will allow Firefox to download it correctly(without stripping off anything past the space) if you need a space the file name.
Good luck!
Drew HDrew H
The content type text/csv is correct, but you should also add an charset encoding:
But what the hell is this:
Remove that headers! The content length is in bytes. Do not try to calculate it by yourself. It is definitly wrong in this example! A Mime-Type with major type
text
is not binary!Firefox Will Not Download Files
Arne BurmeisterArne Burmeister
emeraldjavaemeraldjava
Response.AddHeader('content-disposition', string.Format('attachment;filename='{0}', fileName));Response.ContentType = 'text/csv; charset=utf-8';
user5375275user5375275
I am not expert in Java/JSP but are you sure this is correct for text/csv?
response.setHeader('Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'binary');
Did you try commenting out this? In PHP I will simply echo/print the CSV preceded with headers content-type headers and disposition type.
response.setHeader('Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'binary');
Did you try commenting out this? In PHP I will simply echo/print the CSV preceded with headers content-type headers and disposition type.
KumarKumar
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Ok so far i have my programing going to the website i want to download link from and selecting it, then the firefox dialogue box shows up and i don't know what to do. i want to save this file to a folder on my desktop. I am using this for a nightly build so i need this to work. Please help.
Here is my code that grabs the download link from the website:
Jerad BillJerad Bill
2 Answers
You need to make
Firefox
save this particular file type automatically.This can be achieved by setting
browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk
preference:More explanation:
browser.download.folderList
tells it not to use defaultDownloads
directorybrowser.download.manager.showWhenStarting
turns of showing download progressbrowser.download.dir
sets the directory for downloadsbrowser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk
tells Firefox to automatically download the files of the selectedmime-types
![Firefox Firefox](/uploads/1/2/6/5/126526162/692255871.png)
You can view all these preferences at
about:config
in the browser. There is also a very detailed documentation page available here: About:config entries.Besides, instead of using
xpath
approach, I would use find_element_by_partial_link_text()
:Also see:
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alecxealecxe
If the application is generated dynamically (mime-types) using Chrome browser will be a better approach since the Chrome will not open the file download pop-up.But multiple download option should be enabled if you need multiple downloads.
Ravinath EdirisingheRavinath Edirisinghe