Chrome does not download files when left clicked

A clear warning, with the option to override, should be displayed instead, as users should be in control of the browser and not the other way around. Now You: Blocking file downloads without notification, good thing to protect users or user unfriendly behavior? Surely everyone needs to learn how to check their downloads for malware no matter whether the source is download via Chrome, Firefox, mail attachment or some other source!

Pigs … they do. The best they do is create a false sense of security. I guess what Google intents to do here is a mix of security and privacy improvement. In other words, not downloading stuff that can be seen or change during transit. In , there were an estimated 2. You are volunteering to teach the 2. Is it really bottom-feeder vs. Or normal user vs. That truth is people have been lulled into this garbage by the likes of schmucks like google which also have an agenda at hand to have a walled garden and total control in similar fashion to apple.

I am a computer scientist. The easiest solution by far is to stop using google for your browsing needs you would be doing yourself a favor anyway.

Just because they foisted their garbage upon you many years ago by bamboozling you to download and install their browser many years ago along with their toolbar does not mean you should continue to use them. There are other similar options such as ungoogled-chromium, brave, vivaldi to name a few that may not have such restrictions in place.

Stop using google only to support insecure downloads? Nobody foisted their garbage upon me and Chrome is no garbage. You miss the main point. People need to learn basic precautions. It is not about somebody else doing it for you or teaching you how to do it.

You know the risk. You need to learn how to look after yourself. I agree with you entirely on that thought. People do need to learn the basic precautions. People do need to learn how to look after themselves but this is the problem, companies like google put us all into a handbasket and force such measures upon us all because of a few bad apples.

Maybe Google should prompt users upon installation which version to install, the baby, hold your hand version or the normal average user that way they can also implement all the rubbish features such as this on the crayons and finger paints version and all the advanced features that a normal user would expect and more on the targeted version.

Mircrosoft are pretty much the same also. Google invests together with Apple the far most money and efforts to find out what their user want. You do not decide what people need to learn. People may not know the risk or they may know the risk and do not care. I worked in IT security for a decade. For instance mobile Firefox was now released without any way to disable Google download and browsing protection for advanced users.

Google gets to know what you download and can track specific sites. Pigs indeed. Concerning for sure. Mozilla was once a different entity but it has slowly descended to what we have before us now. They are perhaps beyond redemption now because the wheels have been in motion for so long at this point.

Yeah it happened to me the other day and I was clueless. Thanks for the explanation. Switched to Vivaldi for main browsing.

Chrome team is full of jerks forcing behaviors often. No options kept for end users. I unistalled it about 18 months ago. Felt food when I did it, and nothing has happened since to change my mind. Has anyone else noticed that color registration is off in the latest Chrome? For instance, yellow comes out as a yellow-green shade. However, the solution is simple: you should add the entire web to exclusions of secure content.

Thank you Martin for this useful article, it gave me the idea of how to solve my stream radio problem. Thanks again, Martin. Google Chrome: Never used it, and never will. Just switch to another browser and tell Google to take a hike. The problem is that while marketing itself as the independent alternative, Firefox follows closely what Chrome does, so that Google can enforce its policies on Firefox users too.

Firefox forks should be used to limit the damage. Can you provide some examples of Firefox following Chrome closely? I want to know these things so that the next time I talk to a FF fanboy I will bring them up. I only know about the FF android fiasco extension support and about:config removal.

Works great and I can even use legacy Firefox extensions. I have had absolutely no security problems. I am not doubting your claim that Firefox follows closely what Chrome does but can you give a few examples? I would really like to know. Also which Firefox fork do you recommend? I am looking for a new browser that is similar to FF for my win7 machine. What if you copy the hotlink and paste it in a new tab? I never encountered this, so I had no need to try it, but I guess it should work.

Garbage like this is why I use Pale Moon. That garbage from pale goons that keep spinning years old unsecure moozilla code might not track but deliver a nice malware bundled into their pale web browser straight from their compromised windoze servers they cannot secure by themselves. You should clarify the wording in your article.

That is NOT the case, and an important point to make. Chrome keeps getting worse every version. I went to T-Mobile last night. Tried to refill my Pay-As-You-Go account. Chrome does allow me to login. But then when I submit my refill, nothing happens. No notification of any kind. Who knows? Then I tried to save the page showing my planned submission.

This is ridiculous. Whoever is designing these browsers and Web sites like T-Mobile are complete and utter morons. Maybe some problem of non security content? Blocking of download is not a good idea , it may affect google badly. People want to download many things from the internet stopping them from doing that may harm the google badly, people easily switch to other browsers.

Version The tab opens with your file name in the URL but nothing happens. Works fine in FireFox, Brave and believe it or not Edge. On my Windows 7 SP1 x64 machine, I have FireFox as my preferred browser, when Chrome opens the new tab, it hangs on a white screen for a bit, after about 10 seconds, Windows prompted FireFox to open and up came the option to download, I had to click a link to open File Manager to download the file and it worked. I just spent an hour on the phone with a customer trying to download critical vaccination information from the Government of Canada website because when she clicked the link, it just did nothing.

Yet worked on all her other devices Apple. So no error, no indication to a regular user that it is blocked. Just silently failing. Way to go, Google. Once again you are using your monopoly to dictate how you believe the Web should work. How much more time will be wasted? This is just stupid and may make me leave Chrome. ANY user feedback would have been nice. When I click a download button or right click and get no response other than a quick screen flicker … I lose my mind. I hammered on the download button about a dozen times.

I ended up uninstalling all of my AV and malware protection software. I was ready to reinstall Windows 10, but tried Edge as a last-ditch attempt and it worked. How to force open links in Chrome not download them? Ask Question.

Asked 8 years, 9 months ago. Active 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed k times. Donald Duck 7, 19 19 gold badges 66 66 silver badges 86 86 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Now the file type will always OPEN using your default program. Danny B Danny B 7 7 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. This won't prevent you from downloading the file.

It simply opens automatically a downloaded file. This doesn't quite answer the question because the question wants to prevent downloading. This does not prevent downloading, it just automatically opens the downloaded file.

On Windows, this opens the file in Notepad. Would like to know how to read "any. I agree with Larry. This does not prevent downloading and so does not answer the question. Guest's answer below does.

Great question. It can be achieved via an extension: For Chrome, load undisposition If the file loading is ASCII then colour coding may be desirable, that can be done via the Syntaxtic extension btw, for Firefox load the InlineDisposition add-on.

This is the most "correct" answer, as it's likely often caused by content-disposition: attachment. Wow, Undisposition is really great! Looking for this for years, you're my savior! For "undisposition" This is perfect, exactly what I needed for those pages forcing links to be downloaded instead of viewed in a new tab!

Works perfectly Using this in Edge btw just like I expected! Not the best solution, but it's an effective "patch" for now. Ricky Ricky 91 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. No browser can open files without saving; that's basic computing.

It's just that some browsers delete it for you once you've used it. A browser should be able to open the file without saving if the file is already saved as in the case of this question - "The links are for local files. It'd be a mistake to assume that is the case for all programs that send or receive the file data or declare it as a core truth of computing. You could definitely 'download' any file straight to stdin of VIM, for example, no disk save at all.

You are technically correct -- the best kind of correct. Guest Guest 37 1 1 bronze badge. To open docs automatically in Chrome without them being saved; Go to the the three vertical dots on your top far right corner in Chrome.