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I always get a promt dialog window "you have chosen to open.... which is: application/octet-stream..."

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lor3
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Whenever I access this specific website and click any of its navigation links, I'll always get a prompt dialog window "you have chosen to open.... which is: application/octet-stream..."

How can I stop showing this dialog? It really annoys me to the point i want to uninstall Mozilla and opted to use Chrome instead.

Thanks.

Whenever I access this specific website and click any of its navigation links, I'll always get a prompt dialog window "you have chosen to open.... which is: application/octet-stream..." How can I stop showing this dialog? It really annoys me to the point i want to uninstall Mozilla and opted to use Chrome instead. Thanks.

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Happy112
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Hi   !

Maybe some security or anti-virus software is causing this. If you have any installed, would you please disable it and see if that will make a difference  ?

Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe Mode with network support to see if that has effect.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-start-windows-in-safe-mode/

http://www.7tutorials.com/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

cor-el
cor-el
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You can remove all data stored in Firefox from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History -> Show All History" or "View -> Sidebar -> History").

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks and history and cookies and passwords and cache and exceptions, so be cautious. If you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.

You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of involved files.

If you revisit a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.