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download forum.php thing

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:38 pm
by hockeystyx16
anyone been getting it lately. you click on a thread in here and you get a popup asking you to download forum.php or something like that. you naturally click no and then you go to click on that link again and it doesnt work. you gotta reload SS and then it might work.

anyone been getting that lately or is my puter being a phag

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:08 am
by blauenlanze
Maybe you've been accidentally alt-clicking? That makes you try to download the page instead of going there.

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:19 am
by wannabe
i hit ctrl click
alt click

none do that for me.

what kind of computer?

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:11 am
by Leedeth
You're not using Firefox are you Kelly?

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:36 am
by wannabe
Leedeth wrote:You're not using Firefox are you Kelly?
no, opera.

why?

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:38 am
by Leedeth
Because alt-click is the download shortcut in Firefox.

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:54 am
by wannabe
really? nvr new that,...cool!

Re: download forum.php thing

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:10 am
by jomotopia
blauenlanze wrote:Maybe you've been accidentally alt-clicking? That makes you try to download the page instead of going there.
+1. sometimes my ALT key sticks and i get this behavior. if it's not that i don't know what it could be.

this should be in Comments/Suggestions which is also the Troubleshooting forum.