[derefr]

Note that downloading of executables via Chrome is mostly already restricted to those from Microsoft- or Apple-approved publishers, because of SmartScreen/Gatekeeper. (And Linux has a culture of looking for things in package management before hunting down an executable on the web, so you basically get the same effect there through convention.)

[nivla]

>Microsoft- or Apple-approved publishers, because of SmartScreen/Gatekeeper.

and the ones not found suspicious by Google's safe scan.[1] I remember once Chrome not letting me download a new version of Light table because it was found suspicious. Actually it will let you download it but will delet it as soon as it is done downloaded.

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46330156/ns/technology_and_science...