Re: WinXP is Tweaked to Make it Difficult to Download Mozilla
Flatfoot <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:49:17 -0600, Ron Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: >Flatfoot wrote: >> First see my post on 12/30/04 about this subject. There I talked >> about trying to download Mozilla on a new computer and the Mozilla >> website kept hanging, making it impossible to download the program. >> >> Meanwhile, I turned to my other computer, with Mozilla already >> installed, and was able to download the program in about two seconds. >> The new computer still wouldn't work on the Mozilla site although it >> worked fine on every other site that I tried. >> >> I thought that was suspicious. >> >> Today I rebuilt my old computer and reinstalled the OS from scratch >> and updated it to XP SP1 and also the latest security updates. Then I >> tried to download Mozilla. Again it was the same thing. The fresh XP >> install with updates works fine on every website except Mozilla.org. >> >> Again, while the newly set up computer was hanging on the Mozilla site >> I turned to the other computer and very quickly downloaded Mozilla and >> burned it to a disc, put it in the other computer and installed it. >> >> It took about 12 more minutes to finally download Mozilla with >> Internet Explorer. >> >> Don't give me any comments about "paranoid conspiracy theories." >> Anybody can try this: Fresh install of Windows XP, Windows Updates, >> and see how it is almost impossible to download Mozilla. >> >> Microsoft is up to its dirty tricks again. Those of you who think >> this is a "conspiracy theory" are simply ignorant of Microsoft's >> history of dishonest and deceitful tactics aimed at discouraging the >> use of competing products. > >Sorry, but I download Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird on all three of >my WinXP (SP2) computers often and I have never had a problem. Look for >some kind of configuration problem... Do you download them using Internet Explorer? I think probably not. Just for the heck of it, next time you need to download a build from Mozilla, do it with IE and see how it goes.