Description of the issue: Downloading a PDF shows the download dialog, however, after specifying the filename and location to download, it fails silently. The result is as if the [Cancel] option instead of the [Save] button was clicked. The browser download history is empty. I have reinstalled a…

[image] Herol: In my case, I fixed the problem by installing the following packages: sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk This solution worked for me as well. Steps taken: run command in terminal window: sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk reb…

@20252025 Take a look at: https://www.techbout.com/chrome-download-failed-insufficient-permissions-5071/

@20252025 Create a new, Linux OS user account (admin level). Do Not copy any settings or files to that new admin account. Restart the computer and sign on: that new admin account. Launch Brave Browser, and Do Not import anything nor transfer any settings to the new Brave Browser profile that wil…

Thank you. The insufficient permissions issue with Chrome does not appear to be related to my problem since the reported errors (seen in your example) are not present in my circumstance.

[image] 289wk: Create a new, Linux OS user account (admin level). Do Not copy any settings or files to that new admin account. Restart the computer and sign on: that new admin account. Launch Brave Browser, and Do Not import anything nor transfer any settings to the new Brave Browser profile …

While I have done my very best to provide as much testing as could be expected for someone not working on the software, and have reported my results here in hopes of it being helpful to any interested developers, I have nearly run out of time to contribute here. Since I already have another compute…

@20252025 Thanks for testing. I am hoping that Brave team member @fmarier will have some notion on how to proceed, some guidance re your issue.

Oh that is not good news for me. They are using the latest Ubuntu and the same fail is happening for them as well. This indicates that something has changed in the past few weeks that is now a more solid fail for certain configurations. His version of Brave is older though. (Versión 1.77.95 Chromium…

I would wait for @fmarier - he knows a lot about the Brave Browser installation on Linux OS.

I have also run into this problem on my bank’s site. I can reproduce consistently and the only thing that works is the “print to PDF” work-around you’ve described above. Other sites I’ve tried work fine though, only this one is broken. Last time I looked, it appeared to be either a site problem or …

fmarier wrote: I have also run into this problem on my bank’s site. I can reproduce consistently and the only thing that works is the “print to PDF” work-around you’ve described above. Other sites I’ve tried work fine though, only this one is broken. Last time I looked, it appeared to be either a …

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