When I try to download a .exe file extension, Firefox designates it as a binary file which is useless to me.

using Windows 7 with i3 processor all the latest updates. Firefox is the ONLY browser that gives me this problem. I should not have to turn off my antivirus or go into my config files, write code or anything to have this simple task to work. If I buy a download for a program and get one shot at the download which is an executable file, I should not have it come up as a Binary file and can not use it to load the program that I just ordered.

Sorry you are having problems. Can you give an example preferably of some small publicly available file and the site you are trying to download it from ?
As a simple example of a download (ok it is a .png image file not not a .exe file) but can you try to download a copy of your avtar/icon, as used on these forums. In Windows one method is that you right click & should get an option save. <br/> Mine alongside uses the link
* https://support.mozilla.com/media/uploads/avatars/avatar-257447.png
Are you able to download such an image, then see it in your download manager, and find it on your computer.
Once you have got Firefox to save your binary file you can use it. In the case of the .exe file you are trying to download that should be usable as intended with your Windows Operating System, the avatar also should be easily opened and viewed.
P.S.
You could try installing the add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/opendownload-10902/ if you wished to adapt Firefox to run .exe files instead of just save them.

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