425907 - Download dialog should tell download file size

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 328954

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; zh-TW; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; zh-TW; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4

When a download is about to start, a dialog box will popup asking you to open or save. The dialog box should also tell the user what size the file is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download something, a dialog box will pop up.
Actual Results:  
Download as normal.

Expected Results:  
It should have a line saying the size of the file to be downloaded.

It would be great if Firefox can state the download file size. Yes, some downloads are "hidden" an it won't let the browser know what the file size is, but like Opera it displays the file size about to be downloaded.

Comment 1

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

I like that idea, makes a lot of sense. Hopefully we'll see a general overhaul in the download manager to make it more useful for Firefox 4 (I have real reservations about the Firefox 3 one).

Comment 2

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

:) Good prediction Damian

This is worth looking at for a "revolution" of the download manager on 4, or future version sof 3.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup