Alex wrote:Any suggestions from our users on how it's better to "fix" this are welcome.

Maybe you should change Alt using, as there are similar problems in Firefox (f.e. the browser always tries to download pdf and zip files) .
I suppose that noone use Alt+click by mistake, so using Alt+click may mean "Force FDM to download without waiting for Cancel". With normal click in Chrome you can immediately display dialog "Are you sure? You have only 5 seconds to cancel download".

ALT can't be used with Firefox browser. Just try it without even FDM installed. (at least on Windows platform). On my PC, Firefox just does nothing when I click links with the ALT pressed.

So after seeing Chrome disabling the extension, after allowing the new notifications permission, I went to the Windows program and checked for an update. After it updated, seems the Chrome download notification has stopped.

Thank you, finally.

Alex wrote:ALT can't be used with Firefox browser. Just try it without even FDM installed. (at least on Windows platform). On my PC, Firefox just does nothing when I click links with the ALT pressed.

just for the record, I have ALT key set to bypass FDM, and in Fx, if I click DL with ALT pressed, it does just that - FDM is bypassed and the download is handled by Firefox.

Of course, I'm using Firefox Nightly build, currently 66.0a1 (2019-01-16) (64-bit) with FDM Version 5.1.34.6924 (36b1e76) to test that.

I have a test profile I can test with as well, if need be, to verify that ALT pressing with FX works fine across versions and with / w/o FDM installed.