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problem with various browsers and SharePoint O365

My company uses SharePoint O365 hosted at Azure and we have several document libraries, mostly all with MS Office documents in them on one of the SharePoint sites.

We want for these to open on the user's desktops using the native applications. The users desktops are Windows 7, but going to Windows 10 in the near future. All desktops have Office 2013, and we'll probably go to Office 2016 when we move to Windows 10. So, we have desktops with Windows 7 & Office 2013 and Windows 10 with Office 2016 coming. We are also moving from IE 11 to Edge with this change.

We have configured the SharePoint libraries to specify for the office documents to be opened in the client applications (launched from their browser), however this does't seem to work properly for the few users we do have using FireFox or Chrome (both the latest). It only works with IE 11 and Edge. When a user has FireFox or Chrome SharePoint insists on opening the documents on-line an only displaying to the browser.

How can we fix this?

David Johnson, CD

however this does't seem to work properly for the few users we do have using FireFox or Chrome (both the latest). It only works with IE 11 and Edge. this is normal as it uses internal calls to the OS

When a user has FireFox or Chrome SharePoint insists on opening the documents on-line an only displaying to the browser they have to right click and save in other browsers

AlphaLolz

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This behavior only seems to exist with SharePoint hosts. We don't have this with any of the java (tomcat mostly) or IIS web sites we have. Is SharePoint not bothering to send a MIME type down?

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David Johnson, CD

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