Tor browser wont download

Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 7 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. Suibne Suibne 11 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. What platform are you on? Windows, Mac, Linux? Where did you download the browser from? I am running Vista Home Premium. I downloaded the browser from the official site and also from CNET; the icon that ended up on my desktop was identical in both cases and the same file size. But when I clicked on it, nothing happened. Normally I'm able to download things and install them, I don't know any reason why I couldn't in this case — Suibne.

Do you know how to run commands from inside cmd i. I find this issue to only be partially reproducible on my machine. I saw the failure about 7 times in one session of the Tor Browser and then never again. An interesting observation is that only sometimes is the browser able to provide a preview of the type of file it is about to download:.

With some research with evilaliv3 it appears that the download fails when the Tor browser presents what I am going to call the downloadLoadingModal see figure 1. After a user accepts to download content, this failure does not present itself, indicating that the issue with the downloads is only temporary.

It is likely that the browser. Any issues with OrBot are worrying, but far aside our range to debug, as most of the application fails our end2end testing when running on Android platforms. Taipo if you continue you to encounter the failure, please provide more information here.

It instead disables the Open With UI seen here. Similar bug appears in Tor Browser for Android, but in this case I'm getting every time the "Download failed" error short after starting it, even if there is enough space.

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