On Mon, 24 Apr 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm building and installing many packages on the ThinkPad T430. Yesterday,
after several hours the browser would not download a file until I reloaded
the web page. I've not seen this happen on any browser or host.
It's a bit annoying, not a critical issue, and I'm curious why it may have
started yesterday. The same issue is occurring today.
While I wait for 6198 webkit2 files to be compiled and linked I'll update
this issue.
1. It happens only on the T430 running Slackware64-15.0, not on the desktop
running Slackware64-14.2. The former is running brave-browser-1.50.121 and the
latter is
running brave-browser-1.44.112.
There is an 11-post thread on the Brave help center about this issue on SuSE
and other distros. For some, unchecking the 'ask where to put the download'
solves the problem. For others, they use Google-Chrome or Firefox. This
behavior has apparently been present in brave-browser for some time.
In my case it started yesterday after hours of downloading files. Today it
worked a short time, then totally refused to honor clicks on files to
download on the ThinkPad.
I re-installed Firefox on the ThinkPad and am having no issues downloading
files and placing them where they belong, and none in ~/Downloads.
Quite disappointing.
Rich
