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Forge installer appears as "jar" file and not as an application

bananeanna
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When I try to download and install the forge installer, it appears as a "jar" file so I click on it to see what happens. It brings me to choose what to open it with and I had the option to use winrar so I clicked that and opened again. It showed this:

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Does anyone know why this happens?

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