Handling “This type of file can harm your computer.” Windows Dialog Box In Chrome Browser

Hello Folks,

You might see below dialog box when you download any file in Chrome browser and it finds that it is harmful for your computer:

This is a window/browser popup which can not be inspected. You can suppress this warning message using ChromeOptions. You need to set “safebrowsing.enabled” as true.

Java Code:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class ChangeDownloadDirOfChrome {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

		// Setting chrome driver path
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "./exefiles/chromedriver.exe");

		// Setting new download directory path
		Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		
		prefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
		
		// Use File.separator as it will work on any OS
		prefs.put("download.default_directory",
				System.getProperty("user.dir") + File.separator + "externalFiles" + File.separator + "downloadFiles");
		
		
		// suppressing "This type of file can harm your computer." popup 
		prefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", "false"); 
		
		
		prefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", "false");
		
		// Adding capabilities to ChromeOptions
		ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
		options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
		
		
		// Printing set download directory
		System.out.println(options.getExperimentalOption("prefs"));
		
		// Launching browser with desired capabilities
		ChromeDriver driver= new ChromeDriver(options);
		
		// URL loading
		driver.get("https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/");
		
		// Click on download selenium server jar file
		driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p[text()='Download version ']/a")).click();
		

	}
}

Note:
Above code may or may not work always with all chrome versions. Above code is tested with Chrome Version 68. I will keep updating posts, if options are changed.

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Author: Amod Mahajan

A software Tester who is paid to judge products developed by others. Currently getting paid in American Dollars. Writing technical posts and creating YouTube videos are my hobbies.