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Steven Lyons
8 months agoNew member | Level 2
Can't download files from the Dropbox site using Safari on Mac OS
Using Safari Version 18.4 (18621.1.15.111.1, 18621) on an iMac running MacOS 13.7.5 (22H527).
Clicking the download button in the upper right of a file detail view does nothing. Tried clearing cach...
- 8 months ago
Im having the same issue. It started immediately on both my Mac systems after upgrading to MacOS 15.4, which upgraded Safari to 18.4 I guess. The download button on the dropbox web interface doesn't work inside Safari.
All extensions and plugins and content blockers disabled.
On Arc Browser, which is Chromium, it works fine.
It seems Apple broke something of yours.
I opened the Javascript console in Safari and it says in error "Not allowed to download due to sandboxing"
Steven Lyons
8 months agoNew member | Level 2
Firefox works, Duck Duck Go has the same issue. I do not have Chrome on this machine.
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
8 months agoDo you have any extensions or plugins running on Safari?
Could you try disabling them to see if this helps?
- r3kl3558 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Im having the same issue. It started immediately on both my Mac systems after upgrading to MacOS 15.4, which upgraded Safari to 18.4 I guess. The download button on the dropbox web interface doesn't work inside Safari.
All extensions and plugins and content blockers disabled.
On Arc Browser, which is Chromium, it works fine.
It seems Apple broke something of yours.
I opened the Javascript console in Safari and it says in error "Not allowed to download due to sandboxing"
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