File type .cbv displays contents rather than gives download options

I've just changed website hosting supplier; both old and new suppliers run Linux services.
My site is scottishcca.co.uk - a correspondence chess site - and I'm using Win7 and Firefox 26.0.
There's a page (members/downloads) where members can download e-magazines and files of chess games - the page is password protected using htaccess/htpasswd which works ok.
Each e-magazine has 4 download links: pdf, zip and pgn all work correctly, but cbv does not - it just displays file contents in the browser page. What should happen is that the browser should bring up a dialogue box asking if the file should be opened with ChessBase 11 Database Software (which is associated with the .cbv file type on my computer - I checked my Default Program settings). The .pgn file type is also associated with ChessBase 11 Database Software and works correctly - the dialogue box allows me to open or save.
All the links work correctly when I use Google Chrome.
I'm puzzled - advice please!
Iain

Firefox generally assesses what to do with web content not by the file extension but by the content type header sent by the server. To see what the server is sending, try using Firefox's Web Console.
After opening the page with the link, open the Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+k), then click the link. The URL should appear in the console. If you click it, Firefox will display the Request and Response headers. Check the Response Headers for the content-type. My suspicion is that Apache doesn't know what a CBV file is, so it is sending "text/plain" or "text/html" which Firefox is dutifully obeying.
To send the correct content type for this media, you can use AddType in your .htaccess file. (You can search for advice on this from sites that help webmasters or on Apache's site.)
''Note: If the link to the CBV has a target attribute to open in a new tab, you need to drag the link to the address bar and drop it there, or copy the link and paste it there and press Enter, to get the URL to appear in the Web Console for the current tab.''

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