Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> John Nall wrote :
>
>   
>> Just kind of in passing I will note that using Firefox under 
>> Windows XP I often have a problem downloading large
>> data sheets from Microchip.
>>     
>
> Is that to the plug-in or directly to a file ?
>   
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Actually, I lied.  Not intentionally, of course.  What I meant to say 
was that if I click on the datasheet at the Microchip website (a pdf 
file) with Firefox, the file is downloaded into Acrobat Reader (which is 
an AR plugin), and that pretty much always works.  But whenever I 
download a datasheet like that, I click the little floppy disk symbol at 
the top left of Acrobat Reader to save it to a file on my computer, and 
that is where the hangup sometimes occurs.  When it hangs up in that 
fashion, it hangs up big time (the computer has to have the electrical 
plug pulled).
> > One of the first things I did in FF was to remove the
> PDF plug-in, so clicking on a PDF link gives a dialog
> to select "save to file" or to "open with Acrobat" (the real
> one, not the plug-in).
>   
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I'll try that and see if it helps. 
.*
*
> > I don't know if the problems are specific to PDF's, but
> I downloaded MPLAB 7.40 full ZIP distribution using
> Firefox and a dialup internet connection yesterday.
> Took several hours, but worked on first try...
>   
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I had a 56KB dial-up connection for many years, but not too long ago 
they finally brought Comcast cable out here in the country, where I 
live, so I switched to cable.  I don't think that I could ever go back 
to a dial-up now!  :-)
.
John
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