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Why Does Yahoo Ask To Open File..?
MIME Type: application/json...;_ylc=X3oDMTBtZjBzdDdkBF9TAwRlbWFpbElkAzEzMzY3NzAwODY-<<< that is the type file, which is unkown to me . this happends when I click -VIEW POST- in Yahoo (updates) News Comments. Cant get into the News page the regular way from IE8 r Fire Fox..fire fox just goes to a Blank page, where IE8 wants me to open a File and still, after opening the file , doesn't do any good. the file has nothing in it...scaned the file and no malware..when will Yahoo fix this problem.? start a few days ago, everything else in Mail works normal. thanks
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
I have this exact same problem. In Firefox it opens a blank page and in IE or Opera it asks to open file. I'm guessing it's some bug in Yahoo. We should report it to Yahoo so they are made aware of this if they aren't already. I think all we can do is wait until Yahoo fixes it.
