Firefox Download / Open
 

I am trying to download a .dat file but everytime i try and download it it automatically converts to open with Nero Showtime making the file useless.

All i need is to download it to my desktop as a .dat file.

Im lost, any ideas?

Re: Firefox Download / Open
 

try:
Tools > Options > Downloads

set it to download to desktop, or if that does not work, same place and change the action by which you open the file

here is a screenshot of what I mean. except use the correct file, I used a PNG I think, not a dat file

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Re: Firefox Download / Open
 

or right click > save link as

Re: Firefox Download / Open
 

Its not there................. Look

Re: Firefox Download / Open
 

.dat is - amongst other things - the file format for VCDs, which Showtime plays and naturally assumes that you couldn't possibly want to do anything else with them other than play them in Nero Showtime, possibly the most elegantly crafted piece of software ever devised ...... ;)

Go to an XP Explorer window:

Tools, Folder Options, File Types. Scroll down to DAT and either click 'Delete' (so XP asks you every time what you want to do with that kind of file when you open it) or 'Change' to choose the default application to associate with the file type.

Anyway, can't you choose 'Open With' when you click the download link in FF?