Firefox Has Stopped Downloading Anything
Firefox 103.0 - 64bit; Windows 10. Since Monday, I have been unable to download anything. The download starts and after a couple of seconds reports "Failed". I have tried starting in safe mode and it still fails. I've done a refresh to no effect. I also have another machine which has the same Firefox version and a copy of the profile but still runs Windows 7. No problem with that one....
Anyone got any ideas?
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Cracked it! It was nothing to do with Firefox and entirely a Windows 10 issue. My Downloads folder was created under a previous release of Windows 10 and the security settings were incompatible with the latest version, effectively meaning I didn't have permission to write to it. I guess it might have helped if Firefox had told me that, rather than just telling me the download had failed.
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An update. It looks like a Firefox v103.0 & Windows 10 issue. I just did a clean install of Firefox with no changes fom the default, other than the search engine, and downloads still fail. Also tried more than one search engine, just to make sure.
தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது
Cracked it! It was nothing to do with Firefox and entirely a Windows 10 issue. My Downloads folder was created under a previous release of Windows 10 and the security settings were incompatible with the latest version, effectively meaning I didn't have permission to write to it. I guess it might have helped if Firefox had told me that, rather than just telling me the download had failed.