Why is Chrome Savings Stuff as .bin
 

Hi guys - I've noticed that Chrome keeps saving things as .bin files.

Can I change this behavior? Why is it doing this? It caused a lot of headaches before I figured out what was going on.

Thanks!

What kinds of things?

Almost everything.

For example, if I go to this URL:

https://manual.cs50.net/appliance/19/player/

and try to save the *.ova file, the extension turns into .bin. That is just one of many examples.

Set google chrome to ask which folder to save it to, then when it is saving there's a check box that says something about changing the extension of unknown file type. I'm not sure the exact wording, but it'll fix it and it's the only check box there :P

Chrome saves this as .bin, because the server misdeclares the MIME type as application/octet-stream for what should actually be application/x-virtualbox-ova.

Chrome's behavior is technically correct, the web server providing the file is just misconfigured.

Thank you - that was exactly what I needed to fix the problem.