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Daniel Ziltener
Daniel Ziltener

Reputation: 655

Force Firefox not to change file extension?

Is it possible to force Firefox not to change the file extension of a file the user downloads? Currently I have the problem that I have a .reg file to download, but Firefox, even though in the Download dialog it says "Text file (*.reg)", saves it as a .reg.txt file, which is highly annoying. How to fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3209

Answers (2)

Luiz Felipe
Luiz Felipe

Reputation: 1

Seems to be a Firefox on Windows bug. My coworker was implementing download of .reg files and I use Firefox, I tested for him and got a .reg.txt. Just renaming it after download was sufficient to make the .reg work, but I got curious if that would happen on Linux also.

Grabbed my laptop where I have Ubuntu installed and the file was downloaded with the correct extension (just didn't run because .reg is a windows extension, it did open in the text editor). It was not automatically renamed as a .txt.

Upvotes: 0

an3as
an3as

Reputation: 61

You could try to do the following things:

1.) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-firefox-behavior-when-open-file Maybe extension (in your case .reg) is associated with Notepad and you could changed it in Options/Applications

a) Click the menu button and choose Options. b) Select the Applications panel. c) The Applications panel will display. Select the type of file for which you want to change the default action.

2.) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511624 This is an old bug, but if you use the affected version of firefox...

When you right click on a link to a batch file and click save as, it will allow you to save it, but it automatically adds .txt to the end of the filename without informing you.

You are unable to save it as .bat

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce: 1.Right click on a batch file link 2.Click save as 3.Save it Actual Results:
filename is file.bat.txt

Upvotes: 1

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