Clicking on the "Download F# 1.9.4.17 msi" link from the F# download page at
http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx takes you to a page with
a big "download" button on it.
The button works correctly in Internet Explorer (on Vista) but in Firefox 3 I found
that it took me to an empty FTP directory. By manually removing the filename component
of the path in the browser navigation bar you can get to an FTP folder which does contain
the MSI files which can then be manually downloaded. At the time of writing this folder
was:
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/downloads/7ac148a7-149b-4056-aa06-1e6754efd36f/
I notice that no one else seems to be reporting issues with downloads and Firefox 3
so perhaps it is something peculiar to my installation, but just in case, I thought it
was worth documenting here.