You might not know that Chrome for Android has two ways of dealing with downloads. When there is a file you want to save,you will often click on a link which redirects you to a blank page where a pop-up window asks for your consent to download the file, which is essentially the ‘Downloads’ (or ‘Download Manager’) app making its way into Chrome. Another way of downloading a file is to simply long press on it and consequently click ‘save’. This second method utilizes Chrome’s built-in downloader, and which is seeing some welcomed additions with the upcoming version 50 of the Chrome app (via AndroidPolice).
While the steady version of Chrome on the Android N preview already has the functionality built in (because the OS comes with Chrome v50),both the v49 currently running on Marshmallow and the latest build of Chrome Beta conclude not. What the latest iteration of the browser allows you to conclude, though, or is to both pause and resume files that are being downloaded,and also to delete them altogether in case you were to start downloading something unintentionally… more…
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Source: 9to5google.com