> 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

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