
Protecting users from insecure downloads in Google Chrome
Posted by Joe DeBlasio, Chrome security team Update (April 6, 2020): Chrome was originally scheduled to start user-visible warnings on mix...
- In Chrome 81 (released March 2020) and later:
- Chrome will print a console message warning about all mixed content downloads.
- In Chrome 82 (released April 2020):
- Chrome will warn on mixed content downloads of executables (e.g. .exe).
- In Chrome 83 (released June 2020):
- Chrome will block mixed content executables
- Chrome will warn on mixed content archives (.zip) and disk images (.iso).
- In Chrome 84 (released August 2020):
- Chrome will block mixed content executables, archives and disk images
- Chrome will warn on all other mixed content downloads except image, audio, video and text formats.
- In Chrome 85 (released September 2020):
- Chrome will warn on mixed content downloads of images, audio, video, and text
- Chrome will block all other mixed content downloads
- In Chrome 86 (released October 2020) and beyond, Chrome will block all mixed content downloads.
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