Are you using the Download Manager in Firefox, or are you using the Free Download Manager?

Hello! Thank you for the swift reply! This is using the normal FF download process - not a download manager.

I've seen that happen when using a downloader program on particular some sites doing that so that you click "cancel" and then they provide the correct download link. This happens when one uses a downloader program of which the sites detects and does this to prevent the use of "downloader programs".

HI. Thank you for your input here. On the website I am currently using to test this problem, if I press "cancel" it simply cancels the download and returns to the download page - instead of offering me an alternative download link.

Can you provide the site?

Hello again - thanks for sticking with me on this one - much appreciated! The site is: https://www.samplemagic.com/

However, the download I am using to repeat the problem is a "logged in" account download of a product I have bought. As such, I'm not sure how useful the site URL will be?

I think you can sign up for a free account and then download a free demo of a plugin instrument called "Bloq", from the same page within an account, that I am using for this test. I wouldn't expect you to go those lengths to explore this issue though!

Thanks again.

Kev

That last reply has gone into some weird kind of formatting - I tried to edit it, but it remains weird. Sorry!

Hi Kev, the forum software will treat a line as unwrappable if it starts with a space.

More generally, if you add a .txt file extension to the small download, does the file contain an error message of some kind? Or maybe it's a .html file?

jscher2000 said

Hi Kev, the forum software will treat a line as unwrappable if it starts with a space. More generally, if you add a .txt file extension to the small download, does the file contain an error message of some kind? Or maybe it's a .html file?

Well spotted! Thanks for the tip-off - I didn't notice that space there.

The download is about 60MB I think. I can try the .txt thing but not sure what will happen. I have had some success previously by guessing what kind of file it is, and then making a new name and adding the "suspected" file type extension. I don't think this worked with this current download I'm using for testing though. I'v e never seen this behaviour before - I've been on FF for over 10 years.

This download manager works separately from the browser. The browser tells it what to download, and off it goes.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org It is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac.

Thanks. I think I have this add-on installed in FF but I hesitate to use it with some websites as some download managers screw up the "downloads available" count for sample libraries from developers. I'll try it with this site though, as I haven't tried it so far.