132083 - implement silent download in download manager

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[poelzi]

download manager should support silent download, or better download priorities

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

What is "silent download"?

Comment 2

[poelzi]

see the url :)

>SilentDownload is a background transfer method that allows files to be
downloaded >to the users machine without interfering with their network performance.

i searched in the mozilla tree, but didn't found any code, maybe its not
finished or not maintained anymore.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

As far as I know it was never implemented.

Comment 4

[Daniel Steinberger]

*** Bug 141050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Alex Hosking]

If im right silent download automaticly stops downloads when pages are
downloading and carrys on in the background when viewing pages?
This would make Mozilla and supsequently Netscape very popular with people on
modems reviewers would go mad for this.

Comment 6

[home]

In combination with bug 131871 this would make an excellent system for modem
users to download large files over several sessions without disrupting browsing
sessions.

Comment 7

[Alex Hosking]

I think this bug needs more atention.

Comment 8

[sbporter]

I agree with alex, reviewers WOULD go mad for this, this really does need more
attention.

Comment 9

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 338883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[lolipopplus]

Since all legacy addons are disabled now, I think we need to go through this again.

Comment 11

[:Paolo Amadini]

This functionality has already been implemented as network throttling.

Comment 12

[lolipopplus]

(In reply to :Paolo Amadini from comment #11)
> This functionality has already been implemented as network throttling.

Could you explain more a bit? As I found no mean to get rid of confirmation dialog before download.

Comment 13

[:Paolo Amadini]

Per comment 2, this bug was about a different feature than what the title seemed to suggest.

I think removing the confirmation dialog before downloads is a good idea. There is already a design and there is bug 1306339 on file for it, but it is a lot of work and we don't have people available to work on it now. It will happen at some point, but probably not soon.