As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Click here to Register a free account now! Why does Google Chrome keep downloading. Please log in to reply. Posted 30 May - PM Sometimes when I press a link in my browser, instead of going to webpage my browser starts downloading a.
Posted 01 June - PM Anyone? Posted 03 June - PM Anyone? Please download MiniToolBox , save it to your desktop and run it. Click Go and post the result Result. A copy of Result. Extract unzip its contents to your desktop. If an infected file is detected, the default action will be Cure , click on Continue.
If a suspicious file is detected, the default action will be Skip , click on Continue. It may ask you to reboot the computer to complete the process. Click on Reboot Now. If no reboot is require, click on Report. A log file should appear. Please copy and paste the contents of that file here. Edit: the last answer in the above thread might be your case as well: Just disabled Avast Web Shield, no more.
Improve this answer. I don't have avast installed. If it was a virus then all sites that use gzip compression would have been downloaded , right? Have you installed any fancy program recently then? Or has this been always like this for you? Sorry, as stumped as you are.. If this were related to some external —non add-on— program that registered itself for some specific content type or content encoding, then one would not see the HTTP headers. The browser would only send the content, not the headers, to that registered program.
Arjan good point, but any idea what it might be then? Like I commented above, I assume the behavior is caused by the erroneous zero and extra newline. But I cannot imagine this is related to SE.
Arjan I still suspect some browser plugin, might be installed by "innocent" program as well. Try a different web browser, one other than what you normally use. Thanks to the Insider Preview Program, Microsoft can now address the potential issues of its products. Coming to the minor setbacks, of all I would like to point out the one that is haunting me the most i.
Even Google Chrome seems do to the same. A lot of users have been complaining about this since the first appearance of the edge. As a result, in the latest Insider Preview builds of the Windows 10, Microsoft finally has implemented the feature to to stop it. Starting from Windows 10 build , you can set Microsoft Edge to ask permission every time it wants to download a thing.
Step 2: Go to the following location in edge browser by pasting the path given below in address bar. Since you enabled the feature now, Microsoft Edge will now show a confirmation box every time you click on a downloadable content. Thanks to Insider Preview Program, users are now able to request their features and suggestions. Incorrect Internet settings within Windows also cause problems.
Try resetting these settings to their default state. Open "Control Panel," and select "Network and Internet. Towards the bottom of the window, click on the "Reset" button. Check "Delete personal settings," and click "Reset.
Malware may disrupt your Internet connection if your computer becomes infected, so try installing and running anti-virus software to check for infections. If your connection is completely cut off, you may need to download the software from a working PC and transfer it to the potentially infected computer with removable media, such as a CD, DVD, or flash drive.
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