Windows – Why does Chrome sometimes download a website instead of showing it

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Chrome sometimes crashes without giving any error code or report. Just like that.

Sometimes it's very frequent. It won't even show the dialogue asking me to restart. I have to run it again and thn I have to restore the tabs. As soon as I start Chrome again, maybe after a few seconds it will crash and then again and so on.

My second problem is that it downloads unncessary files. Sometimes when I try to visit cnet.com instead of opening the site it just downloads some file. Sometimes it will ask me whether to save or discard Somefilename.html. For other sites it will download like.php or piclist or index.

If i go to this answers.yahoo.com thread it will download index.

Best Answer

It does this because Alt is pressed. Press Alt again to get out of that mode.

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