Brave keeps asking where to download even if I have the toggle switched to disabled. See this 2 year old thread for reference. [image] "ask for downloads location" slider not working Desktop Support Description of the issue: Brave “ask for downloads location” option doesn’t actually get disabled on Windows when the slider is turned off. I read similar topics from the past where people couldn’t get Brave to ask for the download location. I, on the other hand, cannot get Brave to stop asking for the location each time I want to download an image. Steps to Reproduce: Launch Brave go to settings and turn off the “asking for downloads location” slider. Visit any website, then try to downlo… It still hasn’t been solved and is actually very annoying.

Yes this is very annoying and has started in the last two weeks. It is clearly a bug. I do not want a confirmation for every download and would like to automatically download to the folder that I have chosen

Same here - (even switched to beta 1.51.87 - same problem)

Does anyone from Brave read this? Or are we waisting our time?

Thank you all for reporting. Can you all tell me where/what type of files you’re trying to download?

Any file from the web. If I have a designated folder to store files in the brave setting, it should be not be prompting or expecting a confirmation for each file. Easiest way to replicate the issue is go to a web page that has images and try saving them.

@gn48335, Thanks for the information. This is actually why I asked — there is a difference between initiating a download vs directly saving content from a web page (via right-click). The right-click Save [content] as... option will always ask you where to save the image or whatever content you’re saving. This is the equivalent of (for example) opening MS Word and going to File --> Save as... — even if you’ve already saved the file somewhere, Save as... assumes you want to change either the file name or it’s location. So Ask where to save each file before downloading will not apply to these types of actions. However, if you actually initiate a file download — such as (for example) going to brave.com and clicking Download, these actions will respect the state of that toggle. Observe the behavior below (apologies for the video quality, for some reason it cut off way more than I had intended it to):

First of all, I appreciate you taking time to look into this for me. Some where along the behavior of Brave changed and it behaves as you describe. However it did not do that in the recent past. Additionally, Chrome, Edge which are also based of Chromium do not do this. Also under options in Brave as you can see under downloads, I have disabled the ‘ask me where to save before downloading’ So some thing is missing or the implementation is not correct in my opinion. Thanks, [PXL_20230512_172447678.jpg]

Happy to help. On my end, I am seeing the exact same behavior in Chrome. When this option is toggled “off” — that is, the browser will not ask you where to download files — the expected behavior is as described above. See the example in Chrome below. When I have this option toggled off, observe that initiating an actual download will automatically go to the pre-defined location: If I go to save an image via the context menu, Chrome prompts me to choose the location I’d like to save the file: This behavior has always been this way as far as I know. Again, this particular function only refers to buttons/links that specifically include the download attribute or some equivalent. You can test this yourself easily enough and you should see the same behavior as I am.

Check out the behavior of the websites listed below in Brave vs Chrome/Edge https://www.howardgeorge.com/Virginia/Virginia-Birds/ https://jayfahnestockphotography.com/p563509009 Click a picture and hit the download icon. You will see that for Brave - it always asks where to save - while in Chrome/Edge if the download folder is already set in the settings, it downloads without any questions. Brave used to behave that way until recently. Hope this provides enough information to see the issue. Thanks !!

"Ask where to save each file before downloading" toggle doesn't work

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100WattWalrus April 9, 2023, 7:06am 2

Same problem on Mac, since v1.50.114. Getting the Save As overlay for every download, even though this setting is switched off.

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"Ask where to save each file before downloading" toggle doesn't work

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