application/octet-stream mozilla won't d/l plugin

[theDot]

So, when I'm viewing [H] here, occasinoally an ad (or whatever it is) will try to load at the top of the screen but can't because mozilla tells me I need the plugin: application/octet-stream ... So when I click that to download the plugin, it takes me to that netscape site, but says it can't find anything. I've tried searching for an alternative place to download the plugin but can't find it anywhere.

It's annoying because when it can't load the ad, mozilla just keeps trying to load and load (I can see the icon in the top-right rotating continuously even though the rest of the page is loaded).

Mozilla 1.7
RedHat 8.0

 

[nonsequitur]

reinstall macromedia flash... it should detect the browser, or else direct it to the firefox plugins directory.