Downloading MHT files from Chrome

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Diego Mijelshon picture Diego Mijelshon · Aug 5, 2015 · Viewed 18k times · Source

Our SaaS web application uses MHT files for user-created templates.

Recently, Chrome started blocking the downloads, showing the following message: blocked

This obviously frightens users, and requires some awkward steps to work around, even for a tech-savvy person.

IE 11 and Firefox 39 don't have any problem with that file.

Is there a way to prevent this problem that's easier than rewriting our application to stop using MHT files?

Answer

Diego Mijelshon picture Diego Mijelshon · Dec 10, 2015

The workaround was to use a doc extension instead of mht, even though the file is really a mht. Word will silently open it, and save it in the same format by default.

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