Firefox can't handle PHP extensions?

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 19:29

Often when I open a page ending in php or containing php, it tries to download the php file instead of opening it in the browser.
So far I've noticed this behaviour with forums and image hosting sites.

I'm using Firefox 2.0, uninstalled and reinstalled but same problem.

ANy suggestions?

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 19:44

For forums it mostly happens with vbulletin ones. I have reinstalled Firefox yesterday and I thought the problem was gone until I started browsing OCuk and it did it again.

THis guy HERE had the same problem but no solution

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 19:49

Is it usually listed there? I've never heard or seen any similar issues where we had to change this manually. Is that normal?

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 19:53

leezer3 said:
AFAIK its something to do with your internet connection, rather than FF.
Mine tends to do it when I'm totally killing the net connection with P2P, & Ebay does it whatever is happening. (But thats a know NTL proxy problem IIRC)

-Leezer-

Now that you are mentioning it, it does happen in this situation. Haven't had this problem when connection was free.

Is there a way to resolve it apart from cutting downloads?

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 19:58

MarcLister said:
Wow. Weird. Never experienced this for myself.

I'm on 512 and it happens when around 30 tabs of the forum are open.

Try it and tell us if if it does it (if you have a greater speed, open more tabs)?

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 20:04

LOL! yeah I like to keep threads I spot that have interesting titles, so I can read most of them without them being lost between bumps or new threads

bledd. said:
i 'think' i had this problem when i had dreamweaver installed and it was trying to assosiate itself with php files..

not 100% sure tho

I have dreamweaver associated with php files too, but firefox doesn't try to download the php pages if the usage is light. Probably finding an alternate program to open the page, as it's taking too long to load

hitmann · 26 Nov 2006 at 20:36

bledd. said:
i'll have a fiddle on mum's pc now, she has DW installed, but i intentionally told it to not assosiate any files..

do this..

my computer/explorer
tools
folder options
file types

mine has no PHP entry.. (maybe removing yours will solve the problem if you have one?)

Ok will try that. Thanks!