215455 - Feature Request: Reprogramming Download Manager as external program ("Rainbird")

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 215451

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hagen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
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Mozilla lacks as of this moment a potent Download Manager that can be given
download locations and restart or recover downloads after going offline.

It would also help to make it possible to search for multiple sources of a file;
if coupled with the possibility to download complete websites with Mozilla
Navigator, it could perhaps add an option to download also all file links from a
website.

Such download managers exist as of today, but AFAIK only for Windows, and most
laden with spyware. 

I would propose to extract the Download Manager as a program on its own (let's
code-name it "Rainbird"), and include support to put downloads to a FIFO list,
of which it downloads only a preset number simultanously. I think it would be a
bonus if it could be made to use a certain download bandwith until which it
downloads simultanously.

I think a project such as this would also give Mozilla an extra edge over its
competitors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ralf Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215451 ***

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified with 20030807 build.