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Chromium doesn't seem to have any obvious MIME-type configuration settings, which strikes me as a little broken. My specific problem is that there are a number of filetypes that Chromium plays in-browser that I'd rather either download or associate with whatever my system-default MIME-type would suggest. Can this be done?

And here are two related (unanswered) questions, asking if there's a way to tell Chromium not to play mpeg video and mp3 files.

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Look at this ArchWiki entry in the section on File associations. To quote from there:

Unlike Firefox, Chromium does not maintain its own database of mimetype-to-application associations. Instead, it relies on Xdg-open to open files and other mime types, for example, magnet links. See Xdg-open for more information.

There are exceptions to this rule though. In the case of mailto URIs chromium calls out to xdg-email which is similar to xdg-open. Other protocol handlers may have equivalent scripts so check /usr/bin/xdg*. ...

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No - wait - Chromium is still broken for those mimetypes where it has some sort of builtin player (see related. My thought at first was something like "oh hey - xdg-mime query default audio/mpeg gives me totem.desktop and Chromium is somehow deciding that this means it should use its (disabled) Totem plugin to play these in-browser - so I changed to xdg-mime default banshee.desktop audio/mpeg but still get the obnoxious builtin player. Which, in the first place, all I want is to download the file rather than try to open it. – Ternary Aug 23 '12 at 21:13

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