Firefox tries to open a certain filetype (.spk) as text and never adds an entry to the Applications tab in Options, so I have no way to change this behavior.

Since it's not in the Applications tab, I can't change how Firefox handles it. And since it automatically opens it as a text file, I have no way to download this filetype when it's linked to with javascript or flash because I can't right-click and "Save Link As."
How can I make Firefox ask me how to handle the file instead of treating it as text?
I've already tried deleting "mimeTypes.rdf" from my Firefox profile.

Then how do I manually tell Firefox to save text files instead of automatically displaying them?
There's no "text/plain" type for me to edit listed on the Applications tab.
Screenshot attached showing the page info for one of the spk files and the Applications tab with no "text" type listed.
There's another at [http://www.tecsg.co.uk/scs/scs407.spk here]. I don't care if the web server owner has attached the wrong MIME type to a file so long as Firefox will give me a chance to tell it how I want it to be handled. If it's not a webpage (html, php, etc.) then Firefox should not try to render it by itself without asking. --- On a side note, how do I get this forum to treat my line returns like line returns rather than spaces?

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