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by billturner 4912 days ago
Visiting in Chrome on OSX, it started a download of the SoundCloud widget HTML.
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geargrinder 4912 days ago
This was an unwelcome surprise for me too.
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terabytest 4912 days ago
Does this happen to you when you interact with it or when the page loads?

EDIT: might it also be the effect of one of the extensions you might have installed?

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EwanG 4912 days ago
It happens to me on Windows also, and the particular copy I was using is my sandboxed Chrome with no plugins (for sites I'm not sure of). It happened as the page was loading, I immediately got a DL requestor, and the same warning message. That pretty much had me closing the window ASAP.
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charliesome 4912 days ago
I'm also a Chrome user on OS X, but I can't reproduce this... Maybe check if it's one of your extensions?
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billturner 4912 days ago
I've disabled all extensions, and the same thing happens. In fact, there's also a warning that "This site is attempting to download multiple files. Do you want to allow this?"

I'm on Mountain Lion, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101

Edited to add: This happens on page load, before there is any interaction with the page.

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