diff --git a/web/src/shared/utils/downloadWGConfig.ts b/web/src/shared/utils/downloadWGConfig.ts
index f3c357d0f2..b395a0768e 100644
--- a/web/src/shared/utils/downloadWGConfig.ts
+++ b/web/src/shared/utils/downloadWGConfig.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ import saveAs from 'file-saver';
 
 export const downloadWGConfig = (config: string, fileName: string) => {
   const blob = new Blob([config.replace(/^[^\S\r\n]+|[^\S\r\n]+$/gm, '')], {
-    type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8',
+    // octet-stream is used here as a workaround: some browsers will append
+    // an additional .txt extension to the file name if the MIME type is text/plain.
+    type: 'application/octet-stream',
   });
   saveAs(blob, `${fileName.toLowerCase()}.conf`);
 };