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Firefox mobile downloads instead of opening

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olayak
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hi, when i go to www.metmuseum.org (which is the website for the metropolitan museum in NYC), Firefox "starts download" instead of opening the page. this happens with all the pages for this and with some other sites. even after it downloads, it won't open the page. please help!

hi, when i go to www.metmuseum.org (which is the website for the metropolitan museum in NYC), Firefox "starts download" instead of opening the page. this happens with all the pages for this and with some other sites. even after it downloads, it won't open the page. please help!

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When i tried it on my Linux machine i got a cool website, but on my FF for Android and on my Dev Keon FF OS, i get a website with out any CSS, i think the website owner is developing some mobile website or not

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When i tried it on my Linux machine i got a cool website, but on my FF for Android and on my Dev Keon FF OS, i get a website with out any CSS, i think the website owner is developing some mobile website or not

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olayak, i see that the problem is with the website, the header sent out for mobile devices forces the browse to download the page rather than render it.

Try to contact the web master.