Alex wrote:ALT can't be used with Firefox browser. Just try it without even FDM installed. (at least on Windows platform). On my PC, Firefox just does nothing when I click links with the ALT pressed.

just for the record, I have ALT key set to bypass FDM, and in Fx, if I click DL with ALT pressed, it does just that - FDM is bypassed and the download is handled by Firefox.

Of course, I'm using Firefox Nightly build, currently 66.0a1 (2019-01-16) (64-bit) with FDM Version 5.1.34.6924 (36b1e76) to test that.

I have a test profile I can test with as well, if need be, to verify that ALT pressing with FX works fine across versions and with / w/o FDM installed.

So after seeing Chrome disabling the extension, after allowing the new notifications permission, I went to the Windows program and checked for an update. After it updated, seems the Chrome download notification has stopped.

Thank you, finally.

ALT can't be used with Firefox browser. Just try it without even FDM installed. (at least on Windows platform). On my PC, Firefox just does nothing when I click links with the ALT pressed.

Alex wrote:Any suggestions from our users on how it's better to "fix" this are welcome.

Maybe you should change Alt using, as there are similar problems in Firefox (f.e. the browser always tries to download pdf and zip files) .
I suppose that noone use Alt+click by mistake, so using Alt+click may mean "Force FDM to download without waiting for Cancel". With normal click in Chrome you can immediately display dialog "Are you sure? You have only 5 seconds to cancel download".

Hello,
Sorry for the delay. We'll try to fix this soon.
However, this is not us doing this, it's due to the change in Chrome browser.
Details:
1. We intercept a download. But we do not cancel it in Chrome immediately, because we're waiting for the response from FDM (download was cancelled or not), so we can cancel it when we need to or allow it to proceed if it was declined in FDM.
2. This worked fine until Chrome changed things. Now, it establishes some timer (around 10 seconds) for any download and waits. If download was not explicitly cancelled, it's allowed to continue by Chrome itself. Thus, we're still waiting for FDM to respond while Chrome resumed the download already.
3. So, we need some algorithm, which will allow us to make a graceful decision to cancel/resume Chrome download during this 10 seconds in all the cases.
We'll think about it. Any suggestions from our users on how it's better to "fix" this are welcome.

2 months later you still should follow the reporting rules and provide your software versions. Things change, so this request remains valid for ever.

And also, I just did a 100% fresh install of Chrome, only downloaded the FDM extension (no other extensions installed), and this issue still happens, so it's something with your software that isn't meshing with Chrome.

Clive Sorensson wrote:The issue has been reported, it must be on the list for fixing still.

2 months later, can we get started on that list and fix these annoying bugs?

The issue has been reported, it must be on the list for fixing still.

Same issue for me. I believe it happened after Chrome updated several months back, and updating Chrome and FDM doesn't fix the issue. Emailed support almost 3 months ago, no reply. Please fix this.

I have the same issue - except that i noticed it few days ago BEFORE i updated FDM. So i updated FDM thinking it might be 'need to update' reason, but No.. still same issue. So might be a Chrome updated something and created a bug .. //
- -and it doesn't matter if i tick or untick the "Allow browser to download.." it still pops up


i am PC / Win 7 PRO / Chrome 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)
with latest version of FDM / extension etc 5.1.37.7258 (48533e2)

Yeah, sorry, my browser was having an issue showing me the beginning of the thread, and I missed it last time around.

What is your operating system?

Usher wrote:FDM 3.x stays unchanged for a long time.

I didn't think anything changed with the actual software.

Usher wrote:You haven't reported the way of FDM integration with Chromium - there may be something changed there

I'm using the extension you provide. It was just updated the other day, which was when I first noticed this bug.

Usher wrote:...there must be something changed in your browser - directly or in installed browser extensions.

Only thing that changed is your integration extension. Here's a demo in Google Chrome, with no extensions enabled except FDM integration:

https://youtu.be/33qaGfiZtFI

Click download, wait 10 seconds, FDM throws it back to the browser without any user action.

The only real custom setting I use in FDM is to ignore files under 3MB, if that matters: