download window is showing up when the webPreferences.partition option.

[overflowz]

Title says it all. Whenever I try to set the webPreferences.partition option to random string (without "persist:" prefix) and trying to download a file, it shows download dialog instead and waits for interaction. any thoughts?

[rosshinkley]

Sorry for the protracted delay in responding: I think this is probably an issue with how the download path is being set. I'll dig into this and see what comes out.

[rosshinkley]

Based on what you provided here, the download link is opening a temporary window. Nightmare does not support multiple windows out of the box just yet (see segment-boneyard/nightmare#593).

Multiwindow support has been on my backburner, but this may be the impetus to get started in earnest. Working with downloads will give me an ample problem space to explore the problems that are baked into multitab/window support.

[overflowz]

but why it works when I specify partition to null? (persistent)

[rosshinkley]

Can you provide a minimal example? When I try to set the partition to null, the Nightmare IPC crashes.

[overflowz]

I provided already here: segment-boneyard/nightmare#928 (comment) (just add partition: null in webPreferences).
as for crash, it's weird. it never happened to me though.