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when I try to download a an extension foe example uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill I get the error

Download failed. Please check your connection.

I tried to instll the trend extension and I got the same error

There was an error when downloading files with the browser, indicating that there was a problem with the file directory. The download failed, and changing the file directory was still ineffective. Then, it resulted in a situation where no web pages could be opened, as if the network was disconnected. After closing the browser and reopening it, it returned to normal, but the download still could not be used. This problem has existed since versions 115.24 and 115.25.

70% of the time I try downloading something it goes one of three ways, either it completes the download and somehow the file isn't downloaded or shows in my recents. The second way is that it stops mid download and deletes the file. Or the third way which downloads part of the file (or most of it) and just stops the download, keeping the part file and I have to re-download it from the beginning. I waste my data constantly because of these issues, especially being as I don't have wifi where I am located, its important I don't waste my data, time, effort, money, and battery life for nothing in return.

Hi everyone,

I'm a new user here and I'm facing a very specific and frustrating technical issue with Firefox for Android that I hope someone can help me diagnose.

I've been trying to download a large file, but it seems to get corrupted every single time when I use Firefox. The download completes, but the resulting APK file is unusable and gives an error during installation ("There was a problem parsing the package").

To be very specific, so you can hopefully replicate the issue, I am trying to download a game modification file. The file is a gta san andreas mod apk that includes a cleo menu. The file size is quite large, over 1GB.

Here is the exact source page where I am initiating the download from: https://modhello.com/gta-san-andreas/ https://modhello.com/gta-san-andreas/

Here's the crucial part:

When I download this file using Google Chrome on the same Android device and the same Wi-Fi network, the download is successful and the file works perfectly. When I use Firefox for Android, it fails every time. This makes me strongly believe the issue is with how Firefox for Android handles large file downloads, not with the file or the server itself.

I have already tried the following troubleshooting steps:

Cleared Firefox's cache and data. Tried downloading on both Wi-Fi and mobile data. Ensured I have more than 10GB of free storage on my device. So my questions for the community are:

Is this a known bug? Are there issues with Firefox for Android's download manager when handling large APK files, specifically ones that might be a gta san andreas mod apk with a cleo menu? Could Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection or other security features be interfering with the download stream, causing the file to become corrupted? Are there any settings in about:config that I could tweak to make the downloader more stable for large files? I really want to continue using Firefox as my primary browser on Android, but this download issue is a major problem for me. Any technical advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

This keeps happening - not an isolated incident.

The option to open a dialog box to upload a file becomes non-existent. Concurrently, I'm unable to download and save files.

This is resolved when Mozilla releases an update and I can update my browser. Then eventually something happens and the features stop working. It's like a download fails and then blocks further ones. However, there isn't something obviously stuck in my downloads history.

I can't seem to close my browsers and reopen it to fix, have to wait for an update but this always resolves it. This has happened at least a dozen times now. It is NOT my operating system.

This is wildly frustrating.

For reasons that are not clear, a few days ago, Firefox would not download any files — giving a failure message. I have tried all the different ways of resetting, disabling extensions etc, and even deleting Firefox and re-installing, but that has not solved the problem. Help!

I get the download failed error every time I attempt to download an image or a link from MSPA Booru.

No other website acts like this and when using other browsers, the download process works for me.

I'd been trying to download 2 large files from Icann and kept getting premature completion with Firefox. It would be showing ##MB of 356MB downloaded for a few seconds and then out of the blues it just says completed. As you can see in the shared video, I've tried this several times.

I thought that maybe one of the Firefox addons was causing the issue so I tried Troubleshoot Mode but that resulted in the same behavior.

I then went into Firefox Profile Manager and created a new profile. But that too had the same behavior - 🤔!

So I then tried Chromium. It completed the download successfully and the file passed gunzip test.

So, why is Firefox, even with a new profile, failing to complete a download?

See this video: https://youtu.be/UCYQtxljqXs