Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Download page fails again

I use to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but now use 14.04 and Linux Mint 16.  
Both with MATE desktop environment, since I am not fond of Unity.  I use 
the 64 and 32 bit versions of both.  I use Firefox be default.  Now that 
Chrome has a working 64 bit .deb file version, I have that installed as 
well.  I have to deal with people who use Chrome and it is easier to 
have it on my desktop to work with instead of firing up my Win7 laptop 
to help them out.

I just tried the official download page and the pop up window for saving 
the file popped up as soon as I saw the "donation information".  I did 
have my browser ask me if I would allow for "something" to happen that 
the page wants done.  It is a security option preventing things like 
redirection and downloads without my knowledge.

How is your FF setup?  What security packages have you added onto it.  
Your comment of it might be your setup of FF seems to make me think that 
way.  Of course I have had the same problem with some issues with LO 
that other never had, so it is not uncommon to me. The more I think 
about it the more it seems some type of security option is set in FF 
that prevents the "save as" pop-up from showing.  Try disabling your 
add-ons and extension to see if one of those packages are interfering 
with it.  I know I have one a few years ago that caused me some issues, 
or it was a combination of them interacted to the point that I had 
problems.  So I just disabled all of the add-ons and extensions and add 
them back in one by one till I found the one that caused all of the 
problems. I do not have as many added to my install of FF as I use to.

"original source"?
The archive page is original "source".  It is part of the TDF/LO 
server/site system.

Yes, there are other places to get LO installs.  I create a DVD 
[project] so people would have a physical media to work with instead of 
downloading the files.  I have passed out these DVDs for several years 
now to businesses that would never download the software from the LO 
servers.  AS for other places, unless it is a Linux repository, I tend 
to say away from them.  I knew of places in the "early days" of LO that 
offered "modified" version of LO for Windows and they were just places 
where you got "nasties" installed with the LO software.



On 05/16/2014 10:48 AM, CVAlkan wrote:
> Tim:
>
> Just my two cents - I used the method you described up to somewhere around
> when version 4.x first appeared, but for more recent updates, the donation
> page is as far as I can go. Since that time, I've never been able to
> download from the site - no error messages or anything like that - just no
> download. So, unfortunately, I can't provide any clues.
>
> I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the Firefox browser if that makes any
> difference. I've read all sorts of reasons why the "official download" might
> have stopped working, but none of them make sense to me. Luckily there are
> other ways to obtain LO, although it does seem to be just a little risky to
> not be getting it from the original source.
>
> Because most of the comments I read seemed to suggest that other people have
> no problem with the "official" page, I just assumed that something was amiss
> with my system in particular and ignored advice like "try again later" and
> the like.
>
> Frank


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