230568 - Download manager does not close after download completes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169439

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[George]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Mozilla download manager lacks an option to close the download manager after the
download completes.

This has the odd effect that whenever one starts playing a winamp shoutcast
stream, or any other form of streaming media, download manager will download the
playlist file and then begin playing it with the default application, while
leaving the download manager window open, even after the playlist file has
finished downloading. This is a very annoying behaviour.

The inability to close the download manager after a file has finsihed
downloading - or better still to find a way to smoothly intergrate the capture
and playback of streaming media content without the need for the download
manager to be involved may not be a bug, but it is at least a significant ommision.

Please advise.

Q

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open mozilla
2. Click on a Streaming media file, .ie. a link from www.shoutcast.com.
3.The download manager will launch and will download the file and will remain open.

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
Smoothly lauched the deafult streaming media application for that file type and
begun playing it with the default streaming media application without any need
for any additional software, such as download manager. As things stand,the
current state of intergration is anything but 'smooth.'

GJ

See above.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Reporter : try again with a 1.6b release.

Thanks.

Comment 2

[George]

Ok... I will, but are you saying that the streaming media issue has been
resolved, or that there is simply an option now in download manager to close the
it after a download completes?

Using the download manager to capture streaming media content could cause
problems anyway, as even if you could tell it to close after a download
completes, this is possibly only useful for streaming media content. Other
files, such as .zip and .exe may benefit from having the download manager left open.

The question is how do you differentitate? If you use download manager to handle
this kind of content and thus require the user to interact with the browser to
choose the appropriate action, you are again going to impact on the impression
of 'smooth' muti-media/streaming intergration.

I will give the new browser a try. Hopefully it will resolve at least some of
these issues.

Q

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

frederick, trying with a new build is not likely to change anything wrt the
misfeature that is download manager, since no one is really actively working on it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167452 ***

Comment 4

[Frederic Bezies]

Ouch :[

Forgot to search a duplicate :[

I was too used to new download manager in Firebird :)

Comment 5

[George]

Not really a dupe, using the download manager to manage streaming media content
is in any case as i said, possibly not an ideal solution anyway. Download
manager - as it currently stands is incapable of differentiating between
streaming media files and other content. There would have to be an additional
rule specifically for streaming media content, i.e. download this file, open the
deault media player for this kind of streaming media content - and then close
the download manager.

A blanket rule to close the download manager after ALL downloads have completed,
regardless of the file type, is likely to only cause as many problems as it
would resolve.

GJ

Comment 6

[George]

I think this should be reframed as a general inability of Mozilla (and
incidently Firebird also) to handle streaming/mutimedia files correctly. If I
click on any streaming media file, rather than attempt to play it with the
default application, more often than not Mozilla/Firebird will simply attempt to
download the whole file and only then will it launch the default application and
begin playing it. Which overall rather defeats the object of 'streaming media'.

This is despite having several open source players capable of handling streaming
media files correctly. Real Alternative, Quicktime Alternative, Video Lan
Player, Media Player Classic are only a few that immediately spring to mind.

Some kind of intergration with a default media player (such as media player
classic) reallly is needed to make this browser a usable proposition. I am no
fan of Microsoft, but they at least caught on to this fact several years ago.

GJ 

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The other bug is not about unconditional autoclose, but autoclose when it makes
sense.  This really is a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167452 ***

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169439 ***

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169439 ***