Download stops working

[289wk]

@AccessDenied

Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, in order to include:

• Operating System version numbers

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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’

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Also:

Download fails silently after choosing location to download - fixed in Ubuntu by installing xdg-desktop-portal

@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…

Download fails silently after choosing location to download - fixed in Ubuntu by installing xdg-desktop-portal

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!!!