I encountered the same problem. But, since a recent update of my Debian testing, epiphany 2.29.3-1 is now able to download (at least PDF file, while it was not possible few weeks ago).
I hope this message will help closing this bug. Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii epiphany-browser-data 2.29.3-1 Data files for the GNOME web brows ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.2.1-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii iso-codes 3.16-1 ISO language, territory, currency, ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-3 Avahi common library ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.25-3 Avahi GObject library ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.10-1 Library for handling GObject intro ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.30.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libseed0 2.28.1-1 GObject JavaScript bindings for th ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.30.1-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libsoup2.4-1 2.30.1-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.2.1-2 Web content engine library for Gtk ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-3 XSLT processing library - runtime Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends: ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests: pn mozplugger <none> (no description available) -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org