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Can you help please?
"Axel Berger" wrote in message ... Emrys Davies wrote: Firefox cannot be downloaded onto this machine. The only way I can understand this is, that you are trying to download the current newest version. Don't. Get version 1.5.0.12 or one the 2.x. Axel No, this is what I tried to down load: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....202.0.0.20.exe. I got 'Cannot find server' and 'This page cannot be displayed' errors. |
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Emrys Davies wrote:
I got 'Cannot find server' and 'This page cannot be displayed' errors. Yes, now I can confirm that in my own IE. The reason is a very common idiocy that is gaining more and more support. Replace https:// with http:// in the URL yielding: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...202.0.0.20.exe There are few things as silly, stupid and brain dead as serving totally public things with no privacy whatever like downloads, Wikipedia etc. as secure connections and using bleeding new protocols that shut out loads of lean, tried, trusted and perfectly working browsers. It's like listening to public radio broadcasts through a military scrambler phone. Unfortunately this lunacy is gaining more and more followers. Axel |
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Can you help please?
"Axel Berger" wrote in message ... Emrys Davies wrote: I got 'Cannot find server' and 'This page cannot be displayed' errors. Yes, now I can confirm that in my own IE. The reason is a very common idiocy that is gaining more and more support. Replace https:// with http:// in the URL yielding: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...202.0.0.20.exe There are few things as silly, stupid and brain dead as serving totally public things with no privacy whatever like downloads, Wikipedia etc. as secure connections and using bleeding new protocols that shut out loads of lean, tried, trusted and perfectly working browsers. It's like listening to public radio broadcasts through a military scrambler phone. Unfortunately this lunacy is gaining more and more followers. Axel Well Axel, what a nice surprise. Success and many thanks. It worked a treat. I do not know if you realize that all of these posts are taking place on my personal computer. I copied your amended URL (without the s) to the e-mail box on the Win. 98 SE computer and then copied it to its IE Address bar and after all of the hassle which I have had I was delighted to see it download freely. Great, you are a star*. |
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Can you help please?
Emrys Davies wrote:
what a nice surprise. Admittedly it take take me some time to catch on. I knew you only had IE and I was aware of its limits and still, like a dunce, I only tried tried the link in my standard browser and not IE. At least I'm not the only one, Guy too didn't notice and he ought not to have posted the unnecessary https:// in the first place. Axel |
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Can you help please?
Axel Berger wrote:
I'm not the only one, Guy too didn't notice and he ought not to have posted the unnecessary https:// in the first place. Go and look at the two posts I made on Monday around 10, 10:30 am EST: I posted the following in the first post: ---------------- If you get that, start IE and type this in the address bar: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...0/win32/en-GB/ then hit enter. You should see "Index of /pub/mozilla.org/ ... (etc) ---------------- I then posted this 1/2 hour later: ---------------- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...0/win32/en-GB/ I know that you're going to enter the above URL incorrectly. You're either going to mis-type something, or (more likely) you're going to enter the very last "GB" as lower case. Upper/lower case IS IMPORTANT. GB must be entered in upper case. Everything else is lower case. The URL MUST be entered exactly as shown above. I know that you're going to enter the above URL incorrectly. You're either going to mis-type something, or (more likely) you're going to enter the very last "GB" as lower case. Upper/lower case IS IMPORTANT. GB must be entered in upper case. Everything else is lower case. The URL MUST be entered exactly as shown above. ----------------- So you will BOTH note that I posted the non-SSL link in my last messages. |
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98 Guy wrote:
So you will BOTH note that I posted the non-SSL link in my last messages. Touché, and you're quite right of course. Axel |
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