> Also, I noticed when downloading an attachment from my yahoo mail > account a strange anomaly when the file was a text file named "hah" > (no extension) -- yahoo said it was of type "BIN". The file downloaded > correctly but when the file system was vfat, the file was named > "hah.bin". When the download directory was on an ext3 filesystem, the > file was downloaded properly as "hah". I don't know if it's related > (probably not), but it's annoying.
The issue of adding a .bin suffix in *windows* partitions is been dealt upstream at [1]. In there you can see a couple of workarounds that imply changes in the fstab file (comment #23). [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270159 -- firefox download manager doesn't work when target is on vfat filesystem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113070 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs