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Firefox crashing before download finishes and showing unknown time remaining

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whenever i want to direct download through firefox, it says unknown time remaining but it still downloads then firefox crashes out of nowhere

whenever i want to direct download through firefox, it says unknown time remaining but it still downloads then firefox crashes out of nowhere

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It is possible that anti-virus software is corrupting downloaded files or is interfering otherwise.

Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

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