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Firefox appends .xls to a csv download

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Oct 2, 2007
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When I try to open a .csv file from Firefox using Excel, firefox appends a .xls (filename.csv.xls) to the file and puts all the test in one column. How can I get Firefox to stop doing this so that Excel treats it as a true csv file.

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Does this happen when dowloading from different servers? It's possible that the server's mime type setting is causing this behavior. Does it happen on different client machines with & without Excel or with different browsers?
 
It only happens on a handful of clients. the application we are using only uses firefox, so I can't use other browsers.
 
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