Octet-stream

All of a sudden, when I put a subject in the Yahoo search engine, and I get all the "hits" listed, I can no longer just click on them and they go to the web site. NOW each time I get a box titled "Opening" that say "You have chosen to open" and then says things like "which is a: application/octet-stream' and "from: http//search.yahoo.com". Then "What should firefox do with that file?" and I can choose "Open with [Browse]" or "Save File" with an "OK" and "Cancel" button. When I try "Open with" and use Browse I get lots of choices but none of them will work. What changed? Do I have malware in my computer? I am ready to just give up on FireFox and move to Chrome, which works just fine. Any help out there????

Ok ,well I just got a email from Yahoo Support (I sent many,many)and in the beginning they kept insisting it was malware,or a virus,this now has changed. The email says they're currently investigating the issue and have determined that this is a problem on their end. They are working to resolve this. I do hope that a lot of people who are experiencing this have not let up on contacting Yahoo,and I do know that they are hard to contact,the support is not easily obtained,but you just have to be persistent till you get one person who is willing to go beyond the standard answer they give to a lot of problems people present to them..and this isn't just Yahoo,but others,who will automatically blame it on a virus,ad-ware,malware-or in this case even the firefox browser. So please submit your complaints to Yahoo this will make them work harder if they see how many people are effected . I did try the firefox safe mode that was brought up earlier,this did not do anything and I more or less felt it wouldn't,but wanted to give it a try. Now I will wait to see how long it takes for Yahoo to resolve this problem.

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