I guess Chrome still is in beta, but after all it is still designed to be safe and secure. A few months ago a glitch in Safari was noted that made the browser automatically download whatever an iframe was pointed at in a page. If several iframes were put into a page, Safari would download every single file that they pointed at all at once, covering the user’s download folder (probably the desktop) with potential viruses.

It is also interesting to see how other browsers handle it. Firefox 3 just asks if you want to save the first file in the first iframe, 1.exe, and Internet Explorer 7 blocks it with an information bar asking if you want to download the files.

I have submitted a bug report to Google, but I doubt it will get looked at.

Update: Fixed. Chrome no longer has this issue.