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I could not download firefox because I received a corrupt message, why?

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AnonymousUser
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I tried to download firefox to my laptop and it could not download because the file was corrupt.

I tried to download.

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; FunWebProducts; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

I tried to download firefox to my laptop and it could not download because the file was corrupt. == I tried to download. == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; FunWebProducts; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

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Morbus
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Hello Larry.

Make sure you are downloading from the correct place: getfirefox.com.

If you still get errors, try downloading from the FTP servers:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/win32/

Just choose your language. It's the .exe you want, not the .exe.asc

If this still doesn't work, you probably have a problem with your Internet Explorer. Contact Microsoft for support.

cor-el
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It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox. You can try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work. Do not forget to re-enable the scanning in your anti-virus software after you are finished with downloading and installing. .......... See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files (Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows)