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Setting to make unknown/uncommon software download warnings less intrusive #509

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MulverineX opened this issue Jan 16, 2024 · 6 comments

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@MulverineX
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the moment the browser behaves as if you downloaded the file on accident, when in reality, especially on an enthusiast browser like Thorium, if a power user downloads something, they meant to, and they intend on using it.

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Instead of having to click to have the file be made available, there should be a setting to disable this behavior and simply show a warning icon, perhaps clicking on the warning will help automatically upload the file to virustotal.

@krystejj
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I agree, it's annoying me too

@Alex313031
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@MulverineX @krystejj It's f***ing annoying to me too. I already add the disable quarantine patch from ungoogled, but it seems there is still something else that needs to be done to make it go away. In any case I would put it behind a flag so that "average" users don't start downloading malware and blaming me lol.

Tentatively scheduled for M120 release, but this is assuming I can actually work up a fix for it.

@krystejj
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@MulverineX @krystejj It's f***ing annoying to me too. I already add the disable quarantine patch from ungoogled, but it seems there is still something else that needs to be done to make it go away. In any case I would put it behind a flag so that "average" users don't start downloading malware and blaming me lol.

Tentatively scheduled for M120 release, but this is assuming I can actually work up a fix for it.

That's awesome. I hope you can get it to work.

@Alex313031
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@MulverineX @krystejj Fixed. I added a flag called chrome://flags#allow-insecure-downloads

This also has the side effect of allowing downloads over http:// and ftp://.

When the flag is enabled, it simply treats ALL files as safe, so use this flag with care.

@MulverineX
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Awaiting resolution of #564 to test

@MulverineX
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MulverineX commented May 1, 2024

@Alex313031 it appears this didn't work

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Also, I think we'd all prefer that "mixed origin/cross-origin schemes" and http downloads were still blocked. Additionally, virus scanning should still occur as well. Ideally, Thorium would have a custom flag that specifically disables just the "uncommon/unknown" software warning, as this is what most people end up butting heads with, not the rest of the security features.

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