When downloading an executable file in Firefox (26) windows shows the "File Access - Security warning". Since I am not stupid and don't try to execute downloaded files I don't trust and clearly don't need to be asked again every time I download something I'd like to disable this annoying warning.
2 Answers
For when setting browser.download.saveZoneInformation
to false
doesn't seem to work, one can try applying the following .reg
file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Do not preserve zone information in file attachments
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments]
"SaveZoneInformation"=dword:00000001
Verified to work on Firefox 31, without rebooting the system, and even without restarting Firefox.
For information on the SaveZoneInformation
Group Policy registry setting, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260.
As mentioned in this bugzilla entry, there is a new about:config
option that controls this behavior. Setting browser.download.saveZoneInformation
to false
disables it.