211024 - Large downloads stopped, but progress windows still active

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[blain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I started three downloads (each around 700MB) from three different sources in
Mozilla as FTP transfers.  In another program I had several smaller downloads
going at the same time. 

I had three download progress windows on my desktop at once all three downloads
stopped.  "Elapsed Time" and "Time Left" stopped changing.  Status did not
change and still reported the last transfer rate.  The window itself was still
responsive, but no text was being updated.  Redraws worked fine.

So I assume there are a couple possibilities:
1) My connection got broken and messed up these transfers.  My other smaller
transfers never skipped a beat so I don't think that is the case
2) The three sources I was downloading from in Mozilla all failed at the same
time.  Not likely.
3) Something else broke.  I'm assuming this is the answer but that "something"
is a big question mark.

If the transfers were all from one spot I would have written it off as a
connection burp.  But all three were from different sources (1 west coast, 2
east coast, and I am on the east coast)  

If the download DID just fail....shouldn't the Elapsed time, time left, and
transfer rate be changing (i.e. shouldn't the transfer rate go to zero?)




Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start 3+ LARGE FTP downloads going
2. And wait
3.

Actual Results:  
Will try tommorrow again and post results

Expected Results:  
Reported an error in the download, a broken connection or whatever happened. 
The download progress window should have gotten updated as well.  The Elapsed
Time should keep counting and the transfer rate should be updated as well.

Only using default theme, brand new install of the latest version of Mozilla. 
Download was on debian ISO files from around the USA.

Comment 1

[blain]

I did finally get a chance to try the same scenario again.  It isn't exactly a
speedy process as the downloads did not stall until a couple hours into it.

But, the behaviour was the same again.  

Comment 2

[daf]

I'm getting a similar bug in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917
Firebird/0.6.1+

The download status just seems to freeze (the download rate, progress bar, etc
stops moving). This forces me to close it and start downloading again.
Ususaly it goes well the second time but not always.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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