1845314 - "cancel" download icon grey instead of red, "pause" download function too inaccessible

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Dan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Had to pause a download after reaching 90% because of an appointment. Paused it with click on "x" (the only visible button). Then put PC into hibernate mode (not energy-saving mode!), later boot it again and attempt to continue the download by clicking the circular arrow icon.

Actual results:

Suddenly download started entirely new, from 1%.

Expected results:

either the pause icon must be made always visible right next to the "cancel" icon, OR the "cancel"-function should keep download-fragments (of incomplete download) in the non-volatile PC storage (SSD/HDD) until browser is entirely closed, so that download-fragments survive cycles of putting PC into hibernating and waking it up again.
Keep in mind: our competition (competitive webbrowsers) already HAVE both a "pause" and "cancel" icon always visible right next to downloads!!

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Downloads Panel' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.