and here is Firefoxs prompt on an Android phone

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Can you provide the URL? Given the Firefox prompt, my guess is the site is sending a Content-Disposition header, which is the site telling the browser to force a download.

As for whether the download prompts or not, that's just Chrome's default settings. If you prefer it to prompt you first, just toggle "Ask where to save each file before downloading" under "Advanced" in the settings page.

But what about Chrome for Android? I don't see that setting. This must be the default behavior, which is a problem.

btw toggling that in Chrome for desktop shows a save prompt, thank you. That should be the default setting though! 

Thanks for filing the issue!

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Toggling the setting davidben mentions above fixes this issue in my opinion, but then the problems are 1) this setting should be on by default 2) this setting isn’t present in Chrome for Android

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It looks like we're showing the save dialog, but we're still trying to save it.  Can you let us know what URL you're trying to view?  Thanks!

dtrainor, toggling on the "Ask where to save each file before downloading" solves the issue, I strongly believe this should be on by default. The problem is that in Chrome for Android, this option is not available, so it's saving automatically by default and there's no way for users to change that!
I haven't shared the URL because it's a photo of a woman in a bikini and I wasn't sure if that is appropriate to post

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@10: It's ok to send the URL here (I appreciate the concern though).  Sometimes the link could have a certain attribute which would tell us to download instead of open, so it's nice to be able to check.

Assigning to jming@ who is adding save-as/where support to Chrome on Android, which should give you what you want as well.

here is the image/link https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fc/8e/f0/fc8ef0665418467c669b2ebfc66fd26e.jpg 

The setting will be added on android as part of the storage location work.

And the other part of this bug is, on desktop Chrome, that "Ask where to save each file before downloading" setting should be on by default! It should not be possible to have a file save to a device without asking a user