on a web page when I open a pdf file it says download on the window and then suddenly starts opening multiple firefox blank pages I cant stop it except by using force quit - help
multiple blank firefox pages open one after the other, can't stop them. only solution is to use "force quit" I am on an iMac. Never had this until today. Has happened now 3 times! its scary/
This happened
Just once or twice
I clicked to open a pdf file on a web page (i've done this many times before on this web page with no problem)
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7
Opaite Mbohovái (1)
See Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link
You can have infinite tabs opening if you have selected Firefox as the application to handle a file if you get an Open with download window. Firefox should not be selected as the application to handle a file and you have to remove the action that is associated with that file type.
You can delete mimeTypes.rdf in the Profile Folder to reset all actions or set that action in Tools > Options > Applications to 'Always Ask'.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions ("File handling in Firefox 3 and SeaMonkey 2" and "Reset Download Actions")