diff --git a/app/agent/components/volume-browser/volumeBrowserController.js b/app/agent/components/volume-browser/volumeBrowserController.js
index 20bd82891..0f8e99d86 100644
--- a/app/agent/components/volume-browser/volumeBrowserController.js
+++ b/app/agent/components/volume-browser/volumeBrowserController.js
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function (HttpRequestHelper, VolumeBrowserService, FileSaver, Blob, ModalService
     var filePath = this.state.path === '/' ? file : this.state.path + '/' + file;
     VolumeBrowserService.get(this.volumeId, filePath)
     .then(function success(data) {
-      var downloadData = new Blob([data.file], { type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' });
+      var downloadData = new Blob([data.file]);
       FileSaver.saveAs(downloadData, file);
     })
     .catch(function error(err) {
diff --git a/app/agent/rest/browse.js b/app/agent/rest/browse.js
index c17028ecf..82e5d4b21 100644
--- a/app/agent/rest/browse.js
+++ b/app/agent/rest/browse.js
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ angular.module('portainer.agent')
     },
     get: {
       method: 'GET', params: { action: 'get' },
-      transformResponse: browseGetResponse
+      transformResponse: browseGetResponse,
+      responseType: 'arraybuffer'
     },
     delete: {
       method: 'DELETE', params: { action: 'delete' }
diff --git a/app/agent/rest/v1/browse.js b/app/agent/rest/v1/browse.js
index c175f2369..62a198743 100644
--- a/app/agent/rest/v1/browse.js
+++ b/app/agent/rest/v1/browse.js
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ angular.module('portainer.agent')
     },
     get: {
       method: 'GET', params: { action: 'get' },
-      transformResponse: browseGetResponse
+      transformResponse: browseGetResponse,
+      responseType: 'arraybuffer'
     },
     delete: {
       method: 'DELETE', params: { action: 'delete' }