From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 BuildID: 2001062823 The installer tar file has a .gz extension but is not gzipped. It is an uncompressed tar file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. These field should be optional!!! Not all apply to every bug! 2. 3.

Not to too vehemently disagree with your statements about the steps to reproduce, but precisely which installer are you downloading, there is an new one made every day? Where are you downloading it from? and probably most important, what are you downloading it with? The reason that this is important is that different browsers handle downloading in different ways, and sometimes the same browser treats the same data in different ways depending on what it is doing. The problem that you are seeing is that the webserver at mozilla .org is telling your browser that the file has a Content-Type of application/x-tar a Content-Encoding of x-gzip (or maybe gzip there's not much difference) and a filename of foo.tar.gz. Now when a browser is saving a file to disk it has two choices, it can save the file with or without the content encoding. There are good arguments for each: Saving with the content encoding is the obvious thing to do when downloading foo.tar.gz, but if you had a mime type of text/html that became mysteriously gzipped when saving you might not be so sure. Mozilla right now does the first, something that pleases people who download lots of tar.gz files, and anoy people who attempt to save HTML. Bugs files by the former are marked fixed, and the latter file new ones. Come the revolution, things will be different.

don: this bug is already fixed. you just encountered it, because your old Mozilla unzipped the file on the fly. if you use 0.9.2 for downloading the same file, it should work fine! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35956 ***

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