[PLUG] What's missing from my Firefox?

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Mon May 9 03:44:02 UTC 2011


On 05/08/2011 06:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Firefox 3.6.17 on Fedora 14 x86_64, everything up to date.
>
> I am finding that Firefox cannot find pages on certain links. It
> appears that the link that Firefox cannot find is a link that ends
> in .asp, not that I have any ken what .asp means.

asp = Active Server Pages.

That's an MS functional equivalent of php.

> For example, go here:
>
> http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
>
> In the column to the left there are question marks for several of the
> items. Hovering over the question mark reveals that the "link" ends
> in .asp. Every one of them results in an Atlanta error.
>
> Using Opera all the links work as expected. Apparently Opera can handle
> links ending in .asp, while Firefox cannot.
>
> What do I need to add to Firefox to make it work with these links?

They work on my installation of Firefox, version 3.6.17, on Ubuntu 10.04.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens





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