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Firefox opens Excel spreadsheet when IE won't.

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This isn't a Firefox problem, but I am hoping for some insight. On our company Intranet we have links to some Excel spreadsheets. Firefox opens these links with no problem whatsoever, but IE fails randomly saying the file is corrupt. I just inherited this problem and have been assigned with finding a solution. So far everyone thinks it has something to do with Apache, PHP or Wordpress. I don't think so since Firefox works perfectly it must be a setting in IE. Sorry to ask this here (and I did suggest our company use Firefox to replace IE, but they won't go for it...yet!) How does Firefox handle these links differently?

This isn't a Firefox problem, but I am hoping for some insight. On our company Intranet we have links to some Excel spreadsheets. Firefox opens these links with no problem whatsoever, but IE fails randomly saying the file is corrupt. I just inherited this problem and have been assigned with finding a solution. So far everyone thinks it has something to do with Apache, PHP or Wordpress. I don't think so since Firefox works perfectly it must be a setting in IE. Sorry to ask this here (and I did suggest our company use Firefox to replace IE, but they won't go for it...yet!) How does Firefox handle these links differently?

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cor-el
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A good place to ask questions and advice about web development is at the mozillaZine Web Development/Standards Evangelism forum.
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See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25