Why is my browser downloading links

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Featured on Meta. But I agree this is off topic here. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Edit: the last answer in the above thread might be your case as well: Just disabled Avast Web Shield, no more.

Improve this answer. I don't have avast installed. If it was a virus then all sites that use gzip compression would have been downloaded , right?

Have you installed any fancy program recently then? Or has this been always like this for you? Sorry, as stumped as you are.. If this were related to some external —non add-on— program that registered itself for some specific content type or content encoding, then one would not see the HTTP headers.

A log file should appear. Please copy and paste the contents of that file here. Double-click on AdwCleaner. Click on the Scan button. AdwCleaner will begin After the scan has finished, click on the Report button After reviewing the log, click on the Clean button.

Press OK when asked to close all programs and follow the onscreen prompts. Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process. After rebooting, a logfile report AdwCleaner[S0].

Copy and paste the contents of that logfile in your next reply. Unless you see a program name that you recognize and know should not be removed, don't worry about it. If you see an entry you want to keep, return to AdwCleaner before cleaning Click on each one and uncheck any items you want to keep except you cannot uncheck Chrome and Firefox preferences lines.

Please download Junkware Removal Tool to your desktop. However, downloading a PDF is still possible. By default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder.

Thank you. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hello Kodama, We understand the inconvenience you have experienced. Could you please let me know, what you're unable to download? On which web browser you're facing this issue? Are you trying to download app from Windows Store? Is this issue specific to any particular app? Are you getting any error code or message? Give us above details to assist you better. How satisfied are you with this reply?