IE automation Browser not allowing downloads

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IE automation browser allowed download last week but this week is not working ?

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geavgous Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @ashley1 ,

Thank you for using Power Automate. Can you share more details on the flow you have created? What are the individual steps?

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George

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ashley1 24 on at

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Step one
Load Internet explorer with web page url
STep two
Click download on web page.

Thats it

what used to happen is the download link was shown after step one, however now (This week) the download link does not show.

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ashley1 24 on at

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re above

the url i was using is :-
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAL.L/history?p=AAL.L

if you go to the site normally you will see the download Link top right of the history table.
when you go via IE (Automation Browser) the download link does not show !

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ashley1 24 on at

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Hi
do have any suggestions re my problem or should I raise a ticket

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hey @ashley1

When I open your link in IE it does not show me the Download link.

And when the same link is opened in Chrome it shows up the Download link.

The Download link is also visible on Edge browser.

So it doesn't look to be a PAD thing. It could be the way the old browser (IE) may not be rendering some scripts and elements properly.

Maybe your option to go with would be to use any of the latest browsers like Chrome or Edge browser.

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ashley1 24 on at

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Hi VJR
Thanks for your input.
However if you go to the next stage and try to action the download the following message come up

"Downloading files with a browser other than Internet Explorer is not supported. Consider using the automation browser."

It seems to be in a catch 22 situation, also it was working fine up to Monday of this week ?

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hi @ashley1

In Chrome I was able to download without any error message.

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ashley1 24 on at

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Thank you VJR for your help....

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