. CBV file type displays the content rather that give download options

I just changed my Web site hosting provider; old and new providers of Linux services.
My site is scottishcca.co.uk - a site of chess by correspondence - and I use Win7 and 26.0 Firefox.
There is a page (members/downloads) where members can download files of games of chess and e-magazines - the page is password protected using htaccess/htpasswd which works well.
Each e-magazine has 4 download links: pdf, zip and pgn all work fine, but cbv does not - it just displays the contents of the file in the browser page. What needs to happen is that the browser should display a dialog box asking if the file should be opened with ChessBase 11 database software (which is associated with the type of file .cbv on my computer - I checked my default program settings). File .pgn type is also associated with the ChessBase 11 database software and working properly - the dialog box allows me to open or save.
All the links work correctly when I use Google Chrome.
I'm puzzled - advice please!
Iain

I think I have a solution for this. I went back to my new hosting provider (easyspace) and received this response:
'Hi Iain,

I did some research on this for you and have a suggestion for you to try.
It is possible that Firefox is not to recognize the MIME Type application/cbv, because it is not just a registered IANA MIME Type.
You could try instead of application/octet-stream, which is a generic MIME Type for non-text files.
This idea came to me while reading the page at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types and this document can give you more of an idea of why this does not work in Firefox.
Can you try this please and let me know how you go.
Best regards
Gerry Munn
Support services
I implemented the suggestion of Gerry via .htaccess in my root directory and everything works now (after clearing the cache of Firefox). Maybe you could send Gerry an certificate of ability!

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