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My downloads keep failing every time. I tried everything from this list but all I get is download failed, this has been an issue for years. I have to press the try again button about 3000 times for it to slowly download a bit by bit but for larger files its impossible.

For quite a while now, whenever I try to save a file or image, if I attempt to change the folder for the download I get the error message "The Windows file-dialog has crashed." I think several months ago, Firefox would crash, but now Firefox keeps running but I get that error message. If I want to upload a file the same thing happens, which is a little harder to work around -- I try to change to the folder with the desired file(s) and the file-dialog crashes. The same thing does not happen with other programs -- I recently used Chrome to upload some files when I couldn't with Firefox. I have tried several fixes I found online, including Troubleshoot Mode and Refresh Firefox, but to no avail. I sure would like to find a fix...

I am using Windows 11 and Firefox 135.0.1 (64-bit).

I use Latest version of Win 11 and Firefox. My tracking setting of firefox for many years has been enhanced or strict. Previously only Firefox would allow me to search Ancestry , select something I wanted to download to my online tree. Lately I am unable to download such items; Ancestry flagging that there is a problem. On contacting them they advise to try another browser. O trying Firefox to Google to Ancestry. It works. But Norton is racking up cookies. Any ideas much appreciated. I am not PC expert and have a touch of dementia. Thanks. Derek W

Hello, I am having problems downloading a torrents. When I hit magnet nothing happens, looks like its being blocked for some reason. I disabled Defender but that didn't help..

 Any help would be greatly appreciated .

Thanks example https://www.1377x.to/search/Lip%20Service.s01/1/

obviously you think everyone is a programmer by the was your system does not work doing updates !!

I am hoping your not expecting an 80 year old lady to fix your lack of diligence? or should i just eliminate your program?

I'm using Firefox on Windows 10.

For a long time I've been experiencing freezing in downloads of all sorts of files sizes and different hosts. I start the download, sometimes they finish normally (if smaller sizes) but most of the time they freezes at random percentage and I have to restart from the start.

For downloading larger files are a pain, to have wait and need to keep restart if it freezes.

When I'm using others browser, such as LibreWolf and Zen Browser (forks of Firefox), it doesn't happen and all downloads work flawless.

For some time now, whenever I would try to download any kind of file from the web, it wouldn't do anything and it would just show a .part file in the downloads folder. The same type of file (i.e. jpg) would be able to be downloaded from certain sites but not from others.

At one point I though it might be an OS problem, but the issue wouldn't be replicated in other browsers (Chrome/Safari)

Recently, I tried once more fixing this and by disabling the "Always ask where to save" I was able to download anything from anywhere again, but only to the downloads folder.

System: Mac Studio / Apple M2 ultra chip / macOS 14.6.1

I upgraded to Firefox 135.0 the other day and tried it out on a site I have used several times a week for at least 10 years. A .csv file that I regularly download failed to do so. The system simply failed to respond, and nothing appeared in the download window. The site offers the option of downloading the same data in a .xls file, and that worked. (My previous, obsolete, Firefox gave me the option of where to download to, and remembered the choice between vists. Such is progress!)

Recently, I can't download content; esp. PDF's. I click on a PDF file link, and nothing happens. No error message, no acknowledgement all. I have cleared all data, set security to Standard without relief. I've set the PDF Action to "Always Ask" yet get no dialog box on clicking on a PDF link. Other browsers work just fine. Is it time to switch browsers?