Actually, it looks like <a download href> is totally non-functional in Chrome 59 on the first launch after it updates -
<a href="data:text/plain,..." download="file.txt">data URL file.txt</a>
<a href="data:text/plain,..." download>data URL boolean</a>
<a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/static/images/paperclip.png" download="file.png">file.png</a>
<a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/static/images/paperclip.png" download>boolean</a>
<a href="help" download="file.html">file.html</a>
<a href="help" download>boolean</a>

You can either go to, say, https://bugs.chromium.org/static/images/ and add that code using the Developer Tools, or go to https://codepen.io/anon/pen/jwWGgw (for the non-iFrame version, right click on the frame of the links, select "View frame source" and remove the view-source: prefix from the resulting tab).
Click on any of the links - no dialog comes up. Note that it looks like something is blocking them and not telling the rest of the browser about it, because one part of the browser is aware that files must be downloaded - the allow-multiple-downloads bubble does show up.


Restarting Chrome fixed it for me. info.sankar1995 - it would be great if you could try restarting Chrome and report whether the issue is still reproducible.

Does this repro on 60 as well?  Adding jochen@ in case he has any ideas.  Taking a look.

@1, It looks like the bug that caused 730050 wasn't cherry picked to 59.  Looks like another issue, although similar.  Hmm.

phistuck@ we're unable to repro this (even after updating to 59).  Any particular config you're running that might be affecting this?

info.sankar1995@ could you try to download again while following the logging instructions here (chrome://net-export/) and attach the log?

#6 - I experienced multiple issues on that first-run-after-update, so it might have been a combination of general weirdnesses (a corrupted profile message, icons of bookmarks reverted back to the default generic page icon, <a download> did not work, but maybe any kind of download did not work at the time, I have not tried). Restarting Chrome fixed everything.
I do not think I have any particular configuration. Windows 7 Enterprise, Intel Core i3 CPU, 4 GB RAM, some Intel GPU... No ClearType or any other font smoothing, but I hardly believe this affects the save-as dialog. :)
You can probably disregard my case (mainly because it is not really possible to reproduce).

The original reporter really needs to elaborate a bit for this to be actionable. If it is not working in terms of not navigating and not downloading, I had the same issue (and a relaunch resolved it). If it is navigating, or downloading using a different file name, it is not the same.

info.sankar1995@ also if possible can you please provide Chrome variations which can be found under "chrome://version".


Note: I was unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7,10, Mac and Linux with latest Chrome stable i.e., 59.0.3071.86.

Hello info.sankar1995@. Could you please respond to comments 6 and 8?

Thanks for these response.
My chrome version is 
Google Chrome	59.0.3071.104 (Official Build) (32-bit) (cohort: 59_104_Win)

After a restart it is working fine now.
Thanks once again

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