Shoutbox

Whenever I download a movie or application the window pops up in firefox as to save, open or download with flashgot pops up.  Why is it the little gif or whatever it is comes up as the defauly windows gif you know the white icon and never the corect picture?

I'm just curious  See attached.

dont know but its always that white icon... since a started browsing with firefox it was... and it will always be... (?) 

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Originally posted by YourNeibour
Whenever I download a movie or application the window pops up in firefox as to save, open or download with flashgot pops up.  Why is it the little gif or whatever it is comes up as the defauly windows gif you know the white icon and never the corect picture?

I'm just curious  See attached.

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Do you mean why doesn't it show the actual icon of the exe?

If so it's because the exe's icon is stored in the file itself, and if firefox hasn't downloaded the file, it doesn't know what the icon is.
Hope that aswers your question, if not can you try and rephrase what you're asking?

Plik you could be right... i never thought that way but its a plausibel explication...

If you download or movie or music file, it will show your default media player icon. As Plik quite rightly said, the icon is stored within the application itself.

it doesn't show mpg, avi or any types though.  I've download hundred of stuff and never showed it. hmmm weird.

Maybe the icon association's gotten screwed somewhere. Get your media player to restore file associations, see if that helps.

or is this associated with windows itself?