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01-11-2006, 07:43 PM	#1
walterbyrd Member Registered: Apr 2004 Posts: 507 Rep:	firefox 1.5 adds an extra extension to downloads For example, if I download filename.tar.gz, I'll get filename.tar.gz.gz. It's really annoying. Anyway to stop this feature?

01-12-2006, 12:53 PM	#2
reddazz Guru Registered: Nov 2003 Location: N. E. England Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian Posts: 16,298 Rep:	Not sure how you can stop it, but an alternative would be to right click on the link and click "save link as".

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