Firefox won't download on my Win7 64 bit

When I go to the download page and click download nothing happens. I had no problem on my laptop with vista 64 bit.

Try some of the suggestions here --> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files
Firefox version --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Finding%20your%20Firefox%20version
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