When trying to download a wmv file it opens in safari instead.

I have a mac. I had an old version of firefox and upgraded to 3.6.8.
with my old version of firefox, when I download a wmv file from a site it would ask were to save, no with 3.6 it opens the file in safari.

Go to ''Edit'' -> ''Preferences''. If that option doesn't appear, it might be under ''Tools'' -> ''Options''. Once that window is open, click on ''Applications'' and scroll down to ''WMV'' or ''WMV Video'' or something along those lines. Click the text in the ''Action'' column once to select it, then again to open the dropdown list. Change it to ''Save File''.
That should do it!

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