Re: Download of Linux install shell script

[Federico Bruni]

2013/2/1 Nick Payne <address@hidden>

I have noticed that the last few versions of the unstable Lilypond releases, if I just click on the download link (eg http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/lilypond-2.17.11-1.linux-64.sh), then instead of a dialog asking for the location to place the download, the script file opens as a web page. I have to right-click and choose "Save link as..." to download it. The behaviour used to be that the default was to download, and other shell scripts that I download from other sites (eg http://download.racket-lang.org/installers/5.3.2/racket/racket-5.3.2-bin-x86_64-linux-debian-squeeze.sh) still default to downloading when clicked, so it would seem that the change in behaviour is at the server end and not on my machine.

I'm running Chrome on Linux Mint amd64.

I can confirm it on Chromium:

Version 22.0.1229.94 Built on Debian wheezy/sid, running on Debian 7.0 (161065)

Actually, it opens as a text file.

Have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8323946/how-can-i-edit-chrome-mime-type-mappings