firefox saves things as .bin

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

I've noticed that whenever I download something using firefox (from what I've noticed, this is true for everything except html,text,javascript or css pages) I click on 'save file to filesystem' (or whatever it specifically says) and the file downloads fine except that it adds a '.bin' tag to the end of it. For the other files (like .html files) it doubles the pre-existing tag! (so index.html would save as index.html.html)

marvin5 · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject:

This might well be caused by an extension. Did you try this without the extensions (start firefox with -safe-mode)?

marvin

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

hmm...try wget

by the way look in the preference in download (for firefox)
view and edit action
is there something inside

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

Ok, now this just seems a little weird. I checked the preferences tab, and I have a bit of a list of plugins and how they should be handled by firefox, but nothing about 'bin' files. In addition, I did a little bit of browsing through my e-mail box and found some joke things that had been sent to me (a picture and a video) both downloaded just fine, but the filenames were doubled. I was looking for an example of something where the .bin would appear so I went to download.com and just grabbed something random (a zip file) which I know I have had the .bin show up with before and, here as well, it was doubled (.zip.zip) instead of (.zip.bin) so it looks like the .bin may have gone away for the meantime but I still get this 'doubling' problem.

**Update**

I almost forgot, but I just tried firefox in --safe-mode and I still get the doubled extension, could it be a bad build or something? (I did compile it myself)

Aries-Belgium · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:

I know that when Firefox is downloading a file, he buffers the file to a temporary file and IIRC that is a .bin file. The double extension with html files, is explainable. When you do "Save Page As ...", Firefox will save the html of that page to a html file and he just takes te name of page which already has a .html extension.
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alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

But why for every file? (even non-html) and if that's the case, is there a way to change it so that even for html files, it won't be doubled?

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

was this ever solved? every .exe I download is appended with .bin

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

I'm not actually sure if it ever was. I ended up getting a new computer recently (x86-64) and I have not done too many downloads recently to see if it is still going on. (The only real difference, I think, would be that I am now using mozilla-firefox-bin, so if it is now working properly, that may be the fix.

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

I have it too since I switched from 1.5 to 2.0.0.1. Could this be a bug?

DavidKwast · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

I have this problem too.

My system is gentoo 64 with firefox-2.0.0.1 (compiled)

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

I've reported a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166277 describing my situation.

coolsnowmen · Veteran Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 1479 Location: No.VA

would you mind trying something...
unmerge firefox completely (quickpkg it if you want).
Them emerge it
then make a new user...
login as that user and try to download something...

It sounds like there is something configured wrong...
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