[BUG] Download event not fired when launched with persistent context

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.2.1
• Operating System: Mac
• Node version: 14.5
• Browser: Chromium

Code Snippet

const { chromium } = require("playwright");

(async () => {
  const context = await chromium.launchPersistentContext("./udd", {
    headless: false,
    acceptDownloads: true,
    downloadsPath: "./",
  });
  context.on("page", (page) => {
    page.on("download", (download) => {
      console.log("download", download);
    });
  });

  const newPage = await context.newPage();
  await newPage.goto(
    "https://support.spatialkey.com/spatialkey-sample-csv-data"
  );
  newPage.on("download", (download) => download.path().then(console.log));
})();

Describe the bug

• When the page loads, click on any of the download links

Expectation:

• See the path of downloaded file as well as complete download object

Current behavior:

• Most of the times I don’t see any logs
• At times I would see logs for context based listener
• I never see the download path’s promise being resolved. I think it might be because the download size is too small but I would expect it to keep working properly even for small files.

Is there something wrong with my machine? I tried quitting existing chrome installation and reinstalling all packages to no avail. Any suggestion would be helpful, thanks!

[yury-s]

Can reproduce it on Windows too.

[VikramTiwari]

Hey @rwoll, this helped. Thanks a ton! 😃

I haven’t tried to stop the page from closing but I will try it and update on the status.