151216 - (LimitDownloads) Provide an option to serialize multiple downloads [Limit number of simultaneous downloads]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Briggs]

I would like the Download Manager to be able to download multiple files one at a
time.  
For example: 
I need to download 6 rpm files for the newest Mozilla release.  I click on all 6
rpm files.  The download manager then downloads the files one at a time until
all downloads are complete.

This would be good in many cases where bandwidth is limited on the server or
client and it would be using only one TCP connection instead of many.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 161971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

Confirming as new.
Platform, OS-> All, All

Comment 3

[Patrick]

Updated the summary to distuingish this one from bug 156743 which states you
cannot download more than 8 files at the same time, as given by
pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);

PS : this pref from all.js COULD be used as a workaround for this problem?

Perhaps a dependency could/should be added? 

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 168734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[ratman]

please see the reopened bug 168734 for the similar/related idea of file queueing
for the download manager.

Comment 6

[JoSH Lehan]

If the number of files downloaded simultaneously is limited, it should have a
limit that is independently adjustable (not depending on the overall number of
HTTP connections).  The user should be able to specify a lower limit, such as
downloading only 1 file at a time from a server or from overall, without
affecting the existing limit of simultaneous connections the browser is allowed
to make.

Many sites, such at http://www.the-underdogs.org/, punish the user if an attempt
is made to download more than 1 archive file at a time.  The sites do not mind
simultaneous downloads when rendering a simple web page, however.

Also, for politeness when serializing downloads, the user should be able to
specify a delay between consecutive files from a server.  For example, after one
file finishes, the download manager might wait 5 seconds before opening the
connection for the next file.

This fits in very well with Bug 168734, the request for the ability to queue
downloads to take place at a later time.  This feature would integrate well with
the ability to serialize downloads, and would make a lot of people very happy.

Comment 7

[Michael Gabriel]

dupe of bug 151216 / you decide which goes through

Comment 8

[ratman]

this bug *is* bug 151216, and therefore cannot be a dupe of itself without
incurring significant ontological and/or existential pontification.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 234539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 281234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[PikeUK]

*** Bug 265757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

The SeaMonkey team has no intent on working on this - feel free to try doing an extension that does it with a user-friendly UI though!

Comment 14

[Jonathan Briggs]

This was my bug originally and I'd forgotten it its been so long.

For anyone else finding this bug, the extension that you will want (for Firefox anyway) is DownThemAll!

This is a very excellent download manager. I even sent them money!