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Larry Jaques[_4_] Larry Jaques[_4_] is offline
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Default Book: "Furniture Treasure", Wallace Nutting, 1928

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:09:40 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 10/13/2012 9:22 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:09:52 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 10/13/2012 5:42 PM, Dave wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:33:30 -0400, Bill wrote:
I clicked a button, it asked me to wait 30 seconds to start, then it
downloaded a pdf file to my "downloaded files" temporary folder and
opened it with the Adobe reader. I don't recall whether I was using the
Internet Explorer browser or SeaMonkey (a relative of Thunderbird) a the
time.

Just has a look at it a second time. Waited the requisite 12 seconds
and the download did not start. Clicked on the start download button
after that it still wanted to download ilivid.exe.


Huh? My timer was at 30 seconds on both of the files, both PDFs.


Maybe it's me, or IE9 that I have or something else. Sorry, but three
tries for me is enough.

Did the same for me with Chrome, downloaded an exe ... Like you, I will
not/never/ever click on executable code unless I'm 1000% percent certain
of its origin, and then maybe not.

I might try it later tonight on the iPad and Safari just to see what
happens.


Firefox here. No EXE to be found.


Used IE9 on another laptop ... no exe, no problems.

Amazing ... IE9 actually does what you want it to do; Chrome does what
Google wants you to do; FireFox is so bloated and confused with constant
updates that it can't make up it's mind; and Safari is still connected
to Steve Jobs with an invisible Karma cable.


Spot-on all the way down, sir. shakes head in horror
I was perfectly happy with Netscape Navigator 4. Bookmarking systems
make or break a browser, and -all- are broken nowadays.

SUCKS, it does.

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