232662 - Downloading starts in background

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040128 Firebird/0.8.0+

When I choose "Save link to disk" from pop-up menu Firebird starts downloading
the file in the background immidiately even before I choose a place where to
save it. There has to be an option to disable such a behaviour because when you
have a broadband connection you are risking to download much of the file which
you don't want to have at all. (Imagine you'd like to save a small part of
musical file and then while you're browsing for the best place for it Firebird
already downloads half of it via your 10Mbit Internet connection).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Also that would be nice to have an option to set a firebird maximum connection
speed (like --limit-rate for GNU/wget program) for file downloads. Another idea
is to fetch file headers from the server and then present them to the user like
"You are trying to download file "http://host/dir/file" which has 10Mb size.
Continue?Yes:No"

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Check Tools... Options... Downloads. Is "Save all files to this folder" selected?

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69938 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.