211886 - Partial files no longer appears before download completes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55690

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tomer Altman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030706
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030706

This seems to be a regression bug. Usually when I download a file from the net,
the partial file is created and increases in size until it's done. This is very
useful for example when downloading MP3s, and having the ability to preview them
before they are done downloading.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a file, for example an mp3
2. Look for the file where it is supposed to be downloaded to, before download
completes.

Actual Results:  
The file doesn't appear in that directory.

Expected Results:  
The partial file should appear and be available for use (previewing is one example)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This seems to be a regression bug. 

A regression since M4, maybe....  ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55690 ***

Comment 2

[Tomer Altman]

Just note that this only showed up in the latest nightlies. The nightly 2 weeks
ago didn't have this problem.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm.. Please list exact steps to reproduce?  In particular, exactly what do you
click, type, etc, and in what order?

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.