Firefox 64 Linux Google Redirect

[Yynxs]

Opened a new tab in Firefox to download Linux 64 version. Initial link was: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/downloadnow/19/?evp=44d53ae05f290839ec815810082e7cf4&file=4 which, on 3 separate tries, attempted to connect to: 172.217.2.10 Google. With all of those thieves' IP addresses blocked, I get a fail page: https://www.techspot.com/not-found.

Thought I ought to let you know there is a Google fanboi loose in the house.

 

[DelJo63]

I get the 404 error too :sigh:

 

[DelJo63]

64bit link -> 404 error, while the 32bit link is ok (sigh)

 

[Julio Franco]

Thanks for reporting. We've fixed the file download.

 

[Yynxs]

Tried the download and found my system being redirected to a Westhost server in Boulder, Co. Since there's a nice university there, the low functionally social paranoid that I am I followed up on Westhost and got some webhosting group out of Utah. After letting the initial connections expire, the download link took me to a New York Westhost link. Accepting that link allowed the download cleanly. Chased the lookups on Westhost, Inc. to a 206... IP address with no properly secured certificate. Changing to http alone got me 'secured server not allowed' error.
Nothing useful therein except a hosting company with an expired/other status security certificate.

 

[Julio Franco]

Not sure what was your process there, but there's nothing out of the ordinary. Your download failed before because the file was not hosted properly in our server. We manually scan and host files before they are uploaded to our servers, it was simple human error.

Once we fixed it, the file was made available to download from an URL similar to this one: https://files03.tchspt.com/temp/firefox-74.0x86_64.tar.bz2

That's one of three files servers we use, all located in the US (Dallas and Salt Lake City). And yes, we always use HTTPS for communication.

 

[DelJo63]

I get Firefox75.0b2.dmg which is the Mac version of the ISO

 

[Julio Franco]

I get Firefox75.0b2.dmg which is the Mac version of the ISO

Depends what you choose to download:

Mozilla Firefox

Improve your browsing experience with Mozilla's open-source and highly acclaimed Firefox.

www.techspot.com

 

[DelJo63]

I chose the default, non-specific which elsewhere picks the machine I'm on, 64bit PC

 

[Julio Franco]

No, it doesn't work like that on TechSpot.

 

[DelJo63]

Explicit choice is much cleaner