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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by causi on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:59PM (#33416731)
This trend of browsers to increasingly lie to me about what I'm looking at is infuriating.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by modeless on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:33AM (#33416952)
The URL is a lie but that's not the browser's fault. It's correctly showing you the URL that you requested and the server responded to. If you save the file locally the browser will give it the correct extension.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by q-big on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:07AM (#33419113)
> This trend of browsers to increasingly lie to me about what I'm looking at is infuriating.

The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME type of the content.

I do agree that it would make sense that the browser shows the MIME type of the content that is currently displayed, but this is opposition to the current fashion (in particular pioneered by Apple) of "simplifying" everything.

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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by deathanatos on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:45AM (#33421901)
> The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME type of the content.

In this particular case, Firefox does:

> Picture1-2.png (WEBP Image, 1054 × 593 pixels)

is the title on the tab. (The ".png" comes from the URL, as a sibling notes.)

Chrome does not.

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