Whenever I download a .dmg, .exe file, etc. Google Chrome assumes I don't know what I am doing and asks me if I understand the risks and warns me that the file may be harmful to my computer. I get the idea, but I want these prompts to stop. How do I do this?

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This issue has been brought up a few times, and the answer unfortunately seems to be no. If you know your way around source code, the Chromium project may be of interest. You can hack away at the code and remove the warning.

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The solution without turning off security settings is to to go to Under the Hood, in the Download section, click box next to "Ask where to save each file before downloading".

For those of you who don't know where your normal Download folder is or you are like me that you want a folder on your desktop for easy maintenance, create a new folder on Desktop, and I bet you can't guess what I named it, Download.

Then go to a site and do a search for something that has a PDF document or other downloadable file. Download it. The first time you download this type of file, the normal box pops up at bottom of your browser asking to keep or discard, select keep.

After the file is downloaded and the icon appears for that type of file, click on the little arrow to the right and click on it and in the little menu box select always open this type of file.

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yeah, but doesn't this mean that the file gets opened automatically once the download completes? – finiteloop May 1 at 3:55
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Go to Options / Under the hood / Privacy and uncheck "Enable phishing and malware protection".

And voilà, no warnings anymore.

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Doesn't that also disable other protections? Honest question, I don't know. – CarlF Jun 23 '11 at 13:07
At least as far as PDFs go, this does nothing to solve the question at hand - PDFs still prompt to be saved or discarded. In fact, it probably does more harm than good by opening your browser session to malware. – NoCatharsis Aug 18 '11 at 14:07
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