Is there a way to do this. Many legitimate downloads are blocked by this behaviour. Why isn't the download stopped the moment it is initiated? (spend hours downloading legitimate files and documents only to realize firefox deletes them without any user intervention) and why is there no option to recover the download? So far the only way to fix this issue seems to be: a) use a different browser b) systematically lower the security settings for the browser to download a file then re-enable the options (browser.safebrowsing.enabled and browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled) Thank you for your time.