I needed to reinstall Firefox on this computer, so I started up Chrome to download the latest version and it blocked the download as unsafe! I had to manually tell it to download anyway.
Fuck Chrome. I’m glad I only used it to download one file and went back to Firefox.
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My favorite is Edge trying to plead with you not to switch browsers
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Just reproduced it here-
Are you using a company (work) laptop? Chance that it’s a rule configured by your company’s sysadmin. Chance that they configured it to block downloads for executables. Try downloading other apps to confirm.
No, although I did use it for work, which is the only reason Chrome is on the computer. But the sysadmin didn’t touch it.
They don’t need to touch it. If you login using your company’s google account, they automatically has access via their MDM console.
I don’t. I don’t even work there anymore. I quit a couple of weeks ago.
If you have a good functioning IT dept, that laptop was fully configured to their specifications long before you got a hold of it and it certainly happens automatically.
I didn’t get it from work. It’s my personal machine. I just used it when I had a hybrid schedule. But I don’t log in with that account because it doesn’t exist anymore since I don’t work there anymore.
Gotcha
Perhaps the download was corrupted? Like maybe the checksum didn’t match. Did it happen a second time or after you did a force refresh?
Actually, the second time I did it on a Macbook. A separate machine. However, they are both Intel Macs, so they are older and running an older OS (Monterey). Could that be it?
I just tried to reproduce this and couldn’t either. I’m also using a mac. Had to download a fresh copy of chrome since I didn’t already have it on my machine and it let me download 121.0 without hiccup. I’m curious what blocked it on yours.
Huh. Me too. Very weird. It’s not a problem obviously, but I’m curious too.
Apple MDM. You can lock down a computer in all sorts of ways.
Source: I manage thousands of Macs.
Your safe browsing was disabled, as another commenter said. Either you had it disabled manually, or it was momentarily down and couldn’t fetch the list. Either way, it marks all downloads as unsafe just to be sure in that case.
I don’t use Chrome but maybe that Google Malware scan option is not set to the strictest?
You sure have a lot of tabs for something that you use only once.
I used it for work before I quit my job because the backend required Chrome. Believe it or not, I didn’t bother to close out all the work tabs when I quit the job.
You sure have a lot of tabs for something that you use only once.
So, have you filed a complaint yet? https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
I will now, thanks!
Remember when the meme was about Internet Explorer?
IE: What is my purpose?
Me: You download Chrome!
IE: Oh…my god!
Now Chrome isn’t trusted. Even duck duck go is getting dubious. It seems there’s almost nowhere to turn. Your data is their data, and if you dont like it, you can lump it.
Even duck duck go is getting dubious.
Tried Kagi?
Eyy! You took the words out of my mouth! I don’t mind paying for a search engine if it’s good lol
It’s the whole “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” But I guess the downvoters are perfectly fine with having their data harvested for “free.”
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Not as easy of a choice when I’m struggling to get a job :/
What’s up with ducky?
Ok, seems it’s time to seek next search engine.
At work, we subscribe to Microsoft Defender so that we get a centralised view of potential security issues on people’s computers.
It’s always saying that there’s something wrong with Chrome and it never alerts about the same issues that are almost certainly a problem with Edge.
That’s mildly infuriating too.
Firefox thinks Chrome is unsafe as well.
Well thats true though…
*knows
Enshittification is everywhere.
Of course! With it’s ad-blocking features, Firefox threatens the Chrome/Alphabet profits! This cannot be legal in a free (to make profits) country! /s
You have disabled Safe Browsing. That prevents files from being checked for malware, so all downloads are blocked by default (nothing to do with Firefox). As you noted, you can override the warning to download anyway, but it is an extra step to try to reduce the chance of someone accidentally running a malicious program.
Unsafe… for our margins!
While this could be malice it just as likely could be a complete error. I recently had to download a tool related to x11 on Firefox on windows and it also blocked the download as unsafe. Weirder still, it did this every time I started Firefox until I ended up ditching windows. No idea why.
Did you download it over http instead of https? I know firefox blocks http downloads by default now so I could see chrome doing the same
I’d be very surprised if mozilla.org didn’t redirect http to https.
I honestly wasn’t paying attention. I just went to the download page.
my ass
iirc there’s a mac setting in systems prefs where you can allow apps to be downloaded from the app store or the app store and unverified developers. by default i believe they have it set to app store only. (system prefs > security & privacy > general)
https://www.goodcore.co.uk/blog/how-to-install-apps-on-mac-from-unidentified-developers/
(edit: unverified, in this case, means people who don’t pay the apple developer subscription to release in the mac app store)
Yeah Gatekeeper
The irony. I use Vivaldi Browser now and may consider switching to Fennec if Firefox ever implements tab stacks.
What are tab stacks?
I use an extension in Firefox for this
