Problem downloading files/archives
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henrikerlandsson last edited by
Clicking the link doesn't work, but right-clicking, copying the link, and pasting it in a new tab works perfectly. This happens across tons and tons of sites and is a fairly recent problem (2 weeks-2 months).
Steps to reproduce:
Go to https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Double_Dragon_II_-_The_Revenge#Game.2FDahlgren_Tomas.2FDouble_Dragon_2.lhaClick on the link named "Game/Dahlgren_Tomas/Double_Dragon_2.lha"
The archive contains a music file for the Amiga platform. It is virus free.
I work in the Retro Computing community and download links must work in the browser. They are never dangerous because they are links to files for retro platforms.
What setting do I change to not be warned of or unable to navigate to http websites? If there is no setting, which is the latest version of Opera that can click http links?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@henrikerlandsson Chromium doesn't allow downloads from non-secure (http) pages.
Don't know in what version it started.
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henrikerlandsson last edited by
@henrikerlandsson The setting, "always use secure connections" was already off, and I turned off the setting, "Protect me from malicious sites" and restarted the browser, but the problem persists.
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henrikerlandsson last edited by
@leocg Obviously a vast number of useful sites are HTTP, and commercial and spam sites such as blogs, social media, and media sites are mostly HTTPS. The useful sites have archives, documentation, technical information, and scientific information. This is not to mention all Wiki sites. The non-commercial sites have many contributors, but few who can switch to HTTPS without breaking all the links to, from, and within them. Meanwhile, any malicious sites be on HTTPS and will link to a file or archive over HTTPS, so that this link protection doesn't protect them at all. Once the file is downloaded, you get the same result.
Quite apart from these facts, there's the question of whether a browser is any good if it can only access part of the web.
Which browser or browser version of Opera do you recommend, to be able to browse the web with it?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@henrikerlandsson I disagree, majority of sites seems to already use HTTPS, even because many users refrain from use non-secure pages.
And a HTTP download link inside a secure page will always look as something suspicious.
Anyway, as I said I don't remember when it started, so I can't say which version of Opera (or other Chromium based browser) was the last do allow accessing a HTTP link from a HTTPS page, you will have to test.
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henrikerlandsson last edited by
@leocg Security is about trusting the source and absolutely nothing else. Security experts will learn that someday. All the sites who were trustworthy when they were HTTP were trustworthy then and now, and all the sites who are trustworthy and HTTP now are trustworthy still.
To me, a web browser is a utility that I use to browse the web. If I can't browse the web because of a very recent change after using Opera for 20 years, I will switch utility.
This is a product forum. If this forum can't answer which recent version of the utility stopped browsing all of the web, no-one can. Are you product experts? Do you remember a few months back? Is it unimportant to you? It's not unimportant to those who use forums, wikis, archives, and databases. You know, important stuff.
You don't censor 10% or 20% or 5% of the web completely. That's a severe product flaw in a browser product. Put in a warning. Don't cut off the web. Don't be idiots.
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henrikerlandsson last edited by
@henrikerlandsson Or perhaps more importantly, don't kill off your own product.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@henrikerlandsson Although Opera employees may eventually reply, this forum is mainly for users to help each other.
If you do a search, you should be able to find out in which version of Chromium the blocking started and, consequently, the version of Opera.
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