I’m using Brave Origin and I’ve noticed that sometimes, especially when I’m downloading really big files like multi-GB models I use for content generation, the download happens twice. Let me explain – I start the download and when it hits 100%, it just resets back to 0% and downloads all over again. Only after that second download finishes does the file actually show up in my folder. So basically, it’s like I’m downloading the file twice (but i don’t get two files, just one).
Brave is the only browser doing this. With my other browsers, the file shows up in the folder as soon as the download is done. So my question is pretty straightforward – what’s going on with Brave and how do I fix this? Because honestly, this bug is super annoying with large files. I’m seriously thinking about switching back to my old browser if there’s no solution, because this is a real pain.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Origin Build type (standalone or upgraded):
Brave Browser upgraded to Brave Origin
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Windows 11 Pro
25H2 Brave 1.92.141
Additional Information:
This problem is specific to Brave and doesn’t occur on any of my other browsers.
Can you both confirm whether or not this occurs for other downloaded file types? Even if those file types are still larger files, just for a different kind of content.
Also, it seems to occur more frequently if the Brave download page (the full version) isn’t open, though I can’t say that for sure since the issue is very random.
happening with me too. i downloaded linux mint iso for 2.9gb 3 days ago and it restarted again. moreover today i downloaded blender download setup and its just 340 mb and it again started to download ;-;. Hoping it will be fixed soon
I haven’t noticed any download reset issues today. Brave got an update since my first post so maybe that devs found a fix? I’ll update this post if it happens again, but for now, everything is fine.
Unfortunately, the problem occurred this morning with a 24 GB model: the download reached 100% before starting over from scratch and restarting the download. The issue has therefore not yet been resolved.
To report that it is happening to me as well. First noticed it a few weeks ago. Large files (I’ve seen with ~12GB) are downloaded twice. Frustrating when there is already a bandwidth limit of the site. The download is effectively 24GB.
Seriously? What even is that? I have Windows 10 and this is happening really often. Some files even download 3x. Pretty wasteful and time-consuming if you just want to test out some new models that are like 20-30 GB and it need to download >the same file(s)< 2-3 times! It’s truly annoying, if you don’t fix that soon, I’m done with Brave!
You ought to be kidding. I have to do all that to just download a larger file In Brave? This should work out of the box, just “as-is”.
Sorry, fix the issue in Brave. It´s really annoying and wasting our time.
I will make sure someone gets eyes on the issue above. I have never once seen this issue personally and still can’t seem to reproduce the issue. If anyone here can share a short screen recording, steps to reproduce or really anything else that might help our devs root out the issue here it would be very helpful
When downloading a large file, like a template (most often files over 10 GB), this bug can happen for no specific reason. I don’t do anything special regarding the download. Tho i must say that since i first reported it, it’s much less frequent. It’s not fixed yet, but it’s already better than before.