If interrupted file downloads need to start over?

It is best to use an alternative Chrome installer rather than the network one. We download it via a direct link from the official Google page. The standalone installer does not require the Internet to work and you can be sure that the browser installs without errors. Sometimes the 'Download interrupted' error only affects certain extensions that Chrome stubbornly refuses to download. In this case, you can download them as a local file and install in developer mode.

We open the page of the online store and find the necessary add-on in it. We select the contents of the address bar of the browser, copy it by calling the context menu. Open the Chrome Extension Downloader website in the next tab. Paste the copied content of the address bar into the field indicated by the arrow. Press the button 'Download extension' shown by the number '2' in the screenshot.

We ignore the warning that appears at the bottom of the browser window by choosing the 'Save' option in the panel. As a result, a file with the CRX extension, which is a compressed plug-in for the browser, will be downloaded to the computer. Before you start installing the resulting add-on, you need to unpack it. For this purpose, an archiver capable of working with CRX files is suitable. Our experts used free PeaZIP.

Having opened the 'Downloads' folder, in which the extension is located, we call the context menu. Selecting the 'Extract' item in it, tick the 'Extract to a new directory' option. Specify the desktop as the save location. Click 'OK' to start the unpacking procedure. In the Chrome window, click on the three dots to the right of the combined address and search bar. Expand the 'Additional tools' section in the control menu. Select the 'Extensions' item in the list that appears.

In the upper right corner, move the 'Developer Mode' slider to the on position. An additional panel with three buttons will appear below the search field. Click 'Load unpacked extension'.

Find the directory on the desktop where you extracted the contents of the CRX package. Its name is exactly the same as the add-on downloaded to the computer. Press the button 'Select folder'. The icon of the required plug-in will appear in the browser panel, and if it has settings, additional tabs will open. Repeat the sixth step and turn off 'Developer Mode' so that Chrome does not bother with constant reminders about security requirements.

Open the search box and type 'Notepad'. When a match appears, click on the program icon. A menu of available actions will appear on the right side of the window. Since the hosts file is located in the system directory, it can be edited only if the user has elevated privileges. For this reason, start 'Notepad' in administrator mode, using the item indicated in the screenshot with the number '3'. The absolute path in the above line is indicated in case the operating system is installed in a folder with a name other than 'Windows'.

Using the drop-down menu, indicated by a 2, set the 'All files' mode. In the main window, select hosts and click the 'Open' button. The culprit of all troubles is the line highlighted in the screenshot. Thanks to it, the call to the Google server to download the extension is redirected back to the user's computer. In other words, Chrome 'runs in circles' and eventually reports that it cannot perform the requested operation. Delete the selected line leaving the rest of the content unchanged.

Click the 'File' item on the top panel and write down the hosts file with the changes made. The changes take effect immediately and do not require a computer restart. The methods provided by our experts guarantee the elimination of the 'Download interrupted' error.

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