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Can I disable Chromium's in-browser mp3 player?

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When I click on a link in Chromium to an mp3, can I make the default behavior be to download it and not to start playing it with some in-browser thing?

I've disabled all of my plugins, so it's not one of them trying to play the file. And I suppose I could always right-click or control-click or what have you -- but the problem isn't that I don't know how to download the file (if I were desperate and/or crazy I would just curl it), the problem is that Chromium seems to think that one of its roles is to play mp3s for me. I just want to set it straight.

Chromium Version: 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Ubuntu 11.10

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answered 1 Year ago repend · Accepted Answer

This option does not exist, and from what I gather it is intentionally left out and will not be added.

You can alt-click any link to store the file directly, disregarding its type (mp3, avi, pdf, html, ...).

It was of course not confirmed, but supposedly, this is done to keep the user inside the browser and extend the browsers control of the user. Reading the EULA supports this.