Feature Request: Delete downloads from download bar
Reported by
alanc...@gmail.com,
Jun 6 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Go to a URL that automatically downloads an executable (For example https://www.dropbox.com/downloading and pretend that's a virus). 2. Allow the download to complete. 3. Click the ^ button on the download. 4. Attempt to cancel or delete the file. What is the expected behavior? The user should be able to click 'Cancel' at any time during the download button's life cycle to remove the partially or fully downloaded file. What went wrong? Chrome forced the user to keep the unwanted file. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110 Channel: n/a OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version: If the user clicks quickly enough, they can click 'Cancel' to abort the download. But if the user is NOT quick enough, they can only delete the file by using Explorer or Finder, which puts them at greater risk of accidentally executing the file due to the unfamiliar environment. This also creates a sense of anxiety in myself personally. If a file abruptly downloads, I race to abort it before it completely saves to my system. It's inconvenient and nerve racking to find and delete potentially dangerous files through explorer.
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Jun 7 2017
Thank you for the report. Considering this as Feature request marking as Untriaged and requesting Dev team to look into this.
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May 12 2018
*Nudge* on this. Please triage this. When a small worm or virus automatically downloads, user has to leave Chrome to delete it, putting them at further risk. |
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