when i browse the internet i have this problem please help

[mord]

when i try to open atlas shrugged for example a box pops up that says this and i can';t open        application/octet-stream

[muman613]

Mord,

It sounds to me like your browser is attempting to display content which it is not able to display. This can be caused by the browsers MIME database becoming corrupted.

What browser are you running? I have seen this message when I futz around with multimedia file plugins. Have you added any plugins which would change the file associations?

[mord]

Mord,

It sounds to me like your browser is attempting to display content which it is not able to display. This can be caused by the browsers MIME database becoming corrupted.

What browser are you running? I have seen this message when I futz around with multimedia file plugins. Have you added any plugins which would change the file associations?

mozzila firefox 

[muman613]

mozzila firefox  

I did a quick google on this issue... It seems my initial impression was correct, that this relates to plugins which may not be configured properly.. Although it may indicate that the web server which is serving the pages is not configured properly...

Found the following:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_files_using_plugins

Misconfigured web server

Sometimes a misconfigured web server will send a file with an inappropriate MIME type and, instead of the file automatically opening with the browser plugin, an "Opening" dialog box will appear, asking you to either save the file or open it with a chosen external application. This may happen with .wmv (Windows Media Video) files sent as "text/plain" instead of the correct "video/x-ms-wmv" MIME type (see bug 250914, probably related to the fix for bug 220807, outlined here). A Google Groups search shows that this can also occur when downloading .swf (Shockwave Flash) flies and, most likely, other types of files for which a plugin is installed, when the inappropriate "text/plain" MIME type is sent. A similar issue can occur with the "application/octet-stream" MIME type [2]. (Note that the MIME type of the file being downloaded will appear in the Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey 1.x "Opening" dialog box, but not in Firefox or SeaMonkey 2.) If the problem occurs with some downloads of a particular type file but not others, it is likely that the web server is misconfigured; unfortunately there is nothing you can do in such cases except to contact the website about the problem.

Advanced users can use the Live HTTP Headers to detect the MIME type being sent.

Most responses seem to imply that the problem is an incorrectly configured server.. So maybe it is related to the site you are visiting when that error occurs...

[mord]

I did a quick google on this issue... It seems my initial impression was correct, that this relates to plugins which may not be configured properly.. Although it may indicate that the web server which is serving the pages is not configured properly...

Found the following:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_files_using_plugins

Most responses seem to imply that the problem is an incorrectly configured server.. So maybe it is related to the site you are visiting when that error occurs...

It could be because i kept clicking and when the sites connected i clicked cancel on the info box  and it worked

[angryChineseKahanist]

URL? Like what was the link?

[muman613]

[humor]
Then don't browse the internet!
[/humor]

http://www.funny2.com/henny.htm

The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"

A doctor says to a man, "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day." Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, "How is your love life since you have been running?" "I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!"

The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"

[angryChineseKahanist]

where's mord-man.