Open Bug 1028750 Opened 11 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Firefox freezes while Windows is downloading a big file selected using file input

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Version:
32 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: obrufau, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140530030202 Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a file input <input type="file" /> 2. Click "Browse..." button 3. Enter the URL of a big file (e.g. http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso) Actual results: Firefox is frozen while windows downloads the file. Expected results: Firefox shouldn't freeze.
Summary: Firefox freezes when downloading big file using file input → Firefox freezes while Windows is downloading a big file selected using file input
Component: Untriaged → File Handling
Severity: normal → S3
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