Downloading MHT files from Chrome

Question

Our SaaS web application uses MHT files for user-created templates.

Recently, Chrome started blocking the downloads, showing the following message:

This obviously frightens users, and requires some awkward steps to work around, even for a tech-savvy person.

IE 11 and Firefox 39 don't have any problem with that file.

Is there a way to prevent this problem that's easier than rewriting our application to stop using MHT files?

Answer 1

The workaround was to use a doc extension instead of mht, even though the file is really a mht. Word will silently open it, and save it in the same format by default.