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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Linux , Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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malware warning is shown after downloading the file.

Reported by ksumes...@gmail.com, Jul 7 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Try to Download a file with extension like jar,exe any file type in which chrome shows warning.
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What is the expected behavior?
Chrome should shows a warning that this file type can harm your computer before download starts.

What went wrong?
chrome starts download immediately and only shows warning after downloading

Did this work before? Yes 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.106  Channel: stable
OS Version: ubuntu 16.04
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

Comment 1 by asanka@chromium.org, Jul 8 2016

Labels: OS-Windows
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is by design. Before the download starts, Chrome only knows the source URL and the suggested filename. Instead of showing a generic warning for all downloads, Chrome now waits until the data is available and then only warns if the downloaded content is dangerous or malicious.
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