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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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Downloading files not working... help (self.librewolf)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Tixanou to c/[email protected]

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I am not able to download any files. It doesn't show an error or anything, it just doesn't download.

This only happens on XFCE but, for some reason, it does work on KDE.

I've already tried downloading files in Firefox and it also worked, so it's probably something with Librewolf.

I am using Arch (btw) and the Flathub version, if that helps

Edit: Unfortunately It seems that I won't be able to fix it so I'll just stay with KDE, and if I ever need to download something from XFCE I'll use Firefox ig, thanks everyone for the help tho :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any network drives mounted? I've had experiences where a program fails to save or download and sometimes hangs if (1) I save to a mounted network drive, (2) I lose the mount for whatever reason, and (3) I try to download or save again and the program presumably attempts to access the last place it wrote to (the lost network mount).

[–] Tixanou 1 points 5 months ago

No, I don't, but I appreciate the help

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you install LibreWolf system wide or user ?

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/user-vs-system-install/

[–] Tixanou 1 points 6 months ago

System-wide

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Tested here with LibreWolf installed with Flatpak system wide. Up to date Arch Linux, installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies packages, logged in to the xfce-session, started LibreWolf from the menu, downloaded something to ~/Downloads. No issues.

[–] Tixanou 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So I probably fucked up something on my end

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe it is just your LibreWolf profile (in ~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/) that is giving troubles. You can create a new one with :

/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/io.gitlab.librewolf-community -P and see how it fares.

[–] Tixanou 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Still happens