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		sergiosgc on April 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Right click and save as” needs to go away What's with Chrome adding extensions to the filename? Is this behaviour specific to Chrome on Windows or standard across all platforms? The world does not revolve around windows. File extensions are optional, not mandatory, in unix land. If the site says the file is named foobar, its name is foobar not foobar.txt.

nemetroid on April 23, 2013 | [–]

File extensions are optional in Windows. I haven't had this problem with Opera, FWIW.

mschuster91 on April 23, 2013 | [–]

The problem is that Windows desktop market share is overwhelming and as a Website author, you have to think in Windows user terms!

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