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download file type warning on Windows does not appear if "ask where to save file before downloading" setting is enabled

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Brave Software
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It was discovered that the "Ask where to save each file before downloading" setting disables the potentially-malicious file type warning for downloads in Brave. This behavior is also present in Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1410578.

Reported by ameenbasha

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Closed

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Resolved

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$500.00

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