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Google drive download

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I realized at some moment i cant download any files shared from google drive. When i click download now the page just refresh and nothing happens. Regardless of size, 100MB or 10GB. I must use Chrome to download from there. It must have happened after some update, long time ago. I reinstalled firefox fully, cleared regkeys and all folders. Now i tried with fresh installed one without changing any settings. 64x like my system. Why firefox has a problem with that?

I realized at some moment i cant download any files shared from google drive. When i click download now the page just refresh and nothing happens. Regardless of size, 100MB or 10GB. I must use Chrome to download from there. It must have happened after some update, long time ago. I reinstalled firefox fully, cleared regkeys and all folders. Now i tried with fresh installed one without changing any settings. 64x like my system. Why firefox has a problem with that?

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ps. ofcourse in safe mode it doesnt work as well

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Do other aspects of Google Drive work normally, for example, you can preview images or documents in the browser?

Can you download on other sites normally, it's just Google Drive?

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yes normally all functions works. But what i really mean is when a file is shared to public, where you dont even need to login or anything, just preview and download. Also i can find this shared file in personal g.drive and try to download but this happens:

redirection loop between these: docs.google.com accounts.google.com

Its a common issue still not fixed:

https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+can%27t+download+google+drive&safe=active&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ALeKk03AiA_jafMdBXXQAA0OfDEa0Bhx2g:1598061521214&ei=0XtAX5rbDND9rgSKsovwCQ&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwjah7SK263rAhXQvosKHQrZAp44ChDx0wN6BAgLEC4&biw=1280&bih=854

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Hmm, if you don't need to be logged in, I wonder why there is a loop with accounts.google.com?

Any difference in a private window? Either

  • right-click > Open Link in New Private Window
  • Ctrl+Shift+p then access the link
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yeah, unfortunatelly it just stopped working on this machine, no matter incognito or anyway else. But checked and I do have a prompt to save/open file on my laptop, but not on pc. I wonder what could have an impact on firefox