167584 - Attempt to download same file twice isn't handled properly - Mozilla just keeps spinning until first download is done.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159186

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[WD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When a file is downloading, if you attempt to click the link again to download
the same file, mozilla goes "busy" until the first download has completed. (or
is cancelled)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe
2.Close download manager (optional)
3.Before it has completed, click the link to download it again

Actual Results:  
Mozilla stays busy until the first download has completed.
(throbber is animated, hourglass cursor)

Expected Results:  
1) The Download Manager should:
    - Open if it's currently closed
    - Go to the foreground
2) Mozilla should then go to the non-busy state

I came across this bug when I had closed the Download manager.   I wanted to
download a file, but mozilla just stayed in the busy state and did nothing.  
Only after looking at the modem activitiy lights did I notice that it was
downloading something.  Opening the Download Manager myself let me know what was
going on.

Comment 1

[Heinz König]

I can confirm this bug with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
and Mozilla 1.1 on Windows 2000

If I download the same file twice, the file status in the downloadmanager
switches between the first and the second download thread all few seconds (i.e.
showing 100k/1000k then 200k/1000k then again 100k/1000k etc)
Selecting the file and clicking on cancel quits only one thread the other one
keeps on downloading, and there is no way stopping it, as the cancel button is
greyed out.

Comment 2

[Baguette Sebastien]

I can confirm this bug too with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030210 on an RedHat 8.0

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

See the related Bug 117893.

(In reply to comment #1)
> If I download the same file twice, the file status in the downloadmanager
> switches between the first and the second download thread all few seconds (i.e.
> showing 100k/1000k then 200k/1000k then again 100k/1000k etc)
> Selecting the file and clicking on cancel quits only one thread the other one
> keeps on downloading, and there is no way stopping it, as the cancel button is
> greyed out.

That is Bug 157548.

Comment 4

[claus Norrbohm]

Still exists in 1.6 ...

Comment 5

[Rupendra Dhillon]

This is a confirmed bug for Mozilla 1.7b. I am running Mozilla on Windows XP
professional. The download size keeps going up and down for both the files until
one of them is completely downloaded.

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159186 ***