How to stop this chrome browser message?

[Michael Havens]

do you think a wildcard would work?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> <el_cutpaste>
>
> There IS a way to stop Chrome (or Chromium) from showing this annoying
> prompt. You have to exit browser, locate Preferences file of your Chrome
> profile (~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences in Linux), find
> 'download' section that looks like:
>
> "download": {
>   "directory_upgrade": true,
>   "extensions_to_open": "",
>   "prompt_for_download": false
> },
>
> and change "extensions_to_open": "", to "extensions_to_open": "pdf", and
> you won't see that prompt any more :) If there are already other
> extensions, use a colon to separate pdf from the existing entries (i.e.
> "foo:bar:pdf"). Then save the configuration file.
>
> Originally found at askubuntu.com, posted by Rinzwind
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/111674/google-chrome-annoying-download-
> warning
>
> I was curious myself, those are annoying.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 03/26/2014 06:04 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
>> Recently, the chrome browser has begun posting the warning message shown
>> in this screen capture, which seems like a needless nuisance to me.  Is
>> there any way to stop chrome from posting this message every time I
>> receive a .pdf attachment?
>>
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/adobewarning.jpg
>>
>>
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