There appears to be some sort of glitch when trying to view MS Word documents (Word 2008 12.1.0) via Firefox (2.0.0.14) on OSX.5.2 and 5.3. If you simply click a link to a Word document and tell Firefox to have Word open it, Word will open and show a blank page, but not the document. If you click and instruct Firefox to save the file, and then try to open it, same thing. Only way I've found is to RIGHT click on the file link, choose Save Link As... and then use Finder to browse to the save location and then click the file name to have Word open the file.
This doesn't happen in Safari, but it does seem to happen with Apple Mail, and in Thunderbird. I found several posts on the Interweb where people were reporting the same frustration, but it doesn't seem to be universal. Weird. Someone suggested it may get fixed in FF3 later this month (I'm not installing until it's a final). Maybe a plugin? I have too many extensions installed to troubleshoot that way.
So there's my workaround if you happen to be having the same problem. I'd be curious to know if you have the same setup but *aren't* having the problem...
This doesn't happen in Safari, but it does seem to happen with Apple Mail, and in Thunderbird. I found several posts on the Interweb where people were reporting the same frustration, but it doesn't seem to be universal. Weird. Someone suggested it may get fixed in FF3 later this month (I'm not installing until it's a final). Maybe a plugin? I have too many extensions installed to troubleshoot that way.
So there's my workaround if you happen to be having the same problem. I'd be curious to know if you have the same setup but *aren't* having the problem...
