Chrome downloads can fail due to various reasons. When you click on the download link, Chrome sends a request to the server hosting the file, and the server responds with the file, and your download ...

Chrome (Dev): If you’re downloading a file in Chrome, you have to watch the little bar at the bottom for a vague green circle to fill. If you’d rather get a bit more information (and you’re running ...

Chrome for Android is becoming somewhat of a flagship mobile app for Google, but given that it’s only available on phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, its reach is pretty limited. It’s ...

Google Chrome has a built-in feature that automatically blocks malicious downloads and displays a warning message if the downloaded file is harmful. Google Chrome, like many other modern browsers, ...

The file download process could be blocked by a third-party antivirus. The content-length header could be missing from the server. An extension on Chrome could be causing the problem. The current ...

Something, not clearly abiding by Google’s rigorous standards of safety and thus, flagged as inappropriate is acceptable but forcefully deciding for someone what is good and what not raises doubts ...

Google Chrome will stop a download if, for instance, you click on an HTTPS download link and are then forwarded to an unsecure HTTP server. Chrome has already ended support of HTTP pages in the Chrome ...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen in Davos, Switzerland Januar 20, 2020. Picture taken January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Google eyes informing web users on "insecure" downloads ...

Google is moving forward with its plan to block mixed content downloads from web sites to protect users from man-in-the-middle attacks. In April 2019, we reported that Google was looking into blocking ...

In April 2019, ZDNet reported about a proposal Google had made to other browser makers in an attempt to get everyone on board. The plan, at the time, was that browsers block file downloads that take ...