Downloading *.dmg (and other "potentially harmful") files will never finish if you switch tabs/windows during the download
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This is a very annoying bug that occurs on Mac whenever you download a *.dmg or any other file that is considered "potentially harmful". Because Vivaldi prompts the user for whether or not they would like to keep the file after the file is 100% downloaded, if you switch the tab or window sometime during the download, there is a bug where the user can never see this confirm dialog, nor have any notification to alert them of its existence. As a result, the user cannot confirm the download and keep the file, and the download hangs in perpetuity at 100%, yet unfinished and corrupt. The only way to download a *.dmg or similar file like this is to either disable that confirm dialog, or sit and watch the same tab for the entirety of the download, until one gets the chance to confirm the download, which can take a long time, as *.dmg files are often quite large, multiple hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes in size.
I am currently running the following, but I have noticed this bug for months, and through several upgrades.
Vivaldi 5.0.2497.43 (Stable channel) (arm64)
Revision 672fb5e78c9c34b4108fa26000341c6a7891819f
OS macOS Version 11.6 (Build 20G165)
JavaScript V8 9.6.180.22
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.137 Safari/537.36 -
When the download finishes, the panel should open and the alert should be superimposed on the tab you switched to...as shown above.
(This was done in the latest snapshot, 5.2.2581.4 (Official Build) (x86_64). But I've never seen any behavior different... However, my download prefs may differ from yours:)
Can't reproduce.
Second test:
Prefs:
Can't confirm.
Switching to another window and a different profile (but same prefs) did what you describe, though...
Resume hung on 100%.
Confirmed.
(Of course, the App Store had no suggestions on how to open such a file!
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The good news:
Switching to a window with the same user profile works as expected!
And switching to another application on a different desktop space (...I shopped for and downloaded a couple of ebooks while I listened to Bowman's podcast) then I returned to find the Confirm download alert waiting — patiently!
(I gave it more than 10 minutes before I moved back to the desktop space from which I started the download...)
