**Description of the issue:
Download only works at the start of the session. Download function stops working after a while. The “save to location” prompt shows up, I click the top right corner button “save”, then nothing happens.
AI suggests memory leak, or too much memory used but I can’t find out how to solve this.
What’s the issue here?
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Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
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**Brave Version(about:brave):
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289wk
May 2, 2025, 7:54am
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@AccessDenied
Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, in order to include:
Operating System version numbers
Take a look at:
Click to download or upload not working - #14 by 289wk
Click to download or upload not working - #15 by zac3
Download A Test File
A simple text (TXT) file. The file’s contents are one word: ‘test’:
testFile.txt (4 Bytes)
Test a download, using a simple, test PDF file, courtesy of W3C :
‘https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf ’
Also:
@20252025 Also for what it’s worth, I pinged ChatGPT to see what suggestions it might have. I’m not as familiar with Linux. For now, also wanted to share the below for what it’s worth, in addition to my prior reply.
Not sure if any of it will help, but seems fairly legit and may give more clues. Beyond that, may just rely on @Mattches . Can reference https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/42473 as may be related and I just am doing a +1 now for your topic as well as one from another langu…
This solution worked for me as well.
Steps taken:
run command in terminal window:
sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
reboot computer
relaunch Brave
click on the test (dummy) PDF link above
verify that file downloads and also shows in the download history
THANK YOU!!!