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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Oct 2016
Cc:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Compat



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XLS files open as text instead of downloading

Reported by chadblue...@gmail.com, Oct 24 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Download an .xls file
2. it will open as text

What is the expected behavior?
to be prompted to save the xls file

What went wrong?
it opens the xls file as text

Does it occur on multiple sites: N/A

Is it a problem with a plugin? N/A 

Did this work before? Yes 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.143  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.3
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0
 
disregard this please

Comment 2 by hdodda@chromium.org, Oct 25 2016

Cc: hdodda@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
As per comment #1 , closing the issue. please raise new issue if you face the issue in latest chrome versions.

Thanks !

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