Firefox for Android Community Forum

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!

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