Files manager force file extension

[Yubin Ruan]

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 08:43:07AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 13 May 2017 5:34 a.m., "Yubin Ruan" <ablacktshirt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It seems that ubuntu(16.04LTS)'s file manager, whose name I don't know, will
>> stupidly force users to save file with a specific file extension. For
>> example,
>> when I save the html page from `https://www.yahoo.com', I only got two
>> options
>> in the file manager (at the lower right corner):
>>     "Webpage, Complete" and
>>     "Webpage, HTML only",
>> By default, I get `Yahoo.html' as the filename to save. I can change the
>> `Yahoo.html' to any name like `this-is-yahoo.html'. But I CANNOT save it to
>> something like `Yahoo.webpage' because the file manager will automatically
>> add a "html" file extension for me, thus making it `Yahoo.webpaeg.html'
>> eventually.
> 
> 
> I don't think that is the file manager (Nautilus), I think it is the
> browser. Which browser are you using? Using Firefox (on Ubuntu 16.10) I see
> more than two options and do not get the forced extension.
> 
> Colin

I see. That's Chrome's problem.

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Yubin

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