200368 - mozilla should show download progress in KB or MB even when file size is unknown

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[SSokolow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

mozilla does not show the amount of data downloaded while downloading a file of
unknown size. On the other hand, Internet Explorer does and while I would never
switch back, I find this omission irritating.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download a file from a server from which mozilla cannot get the file size.
Actual Results:  
Mozilla showed a download progress window which did not show the progress in
kilobytes or megabytes

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have showed a running counter of the current amount of data
downloaded

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 2

[irongut]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050328

I've seen the Transferred count increase as wanted in Download Manager many
times (including with the above build). Haven't tested the Progress dialog.

Reporter, can you confirm the wanted behaviour with a recent build?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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