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Bug 236578
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Download Manager should display a percent value for every active download
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(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)
Toolkit
Downloads API
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VERIFIED
WONTFIX
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(Reporter: lunchtimemama, Unassigned)
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The new DM provides all sorts of comprehensive data about the active downloads, except the conspicuously-absent percent value, and when you are downloading more than one file at a time, you cannot determine the percent from the title of the DM window. I think that the exact percent number should appear to the immediate right of the progress bar on each download, or to make it more visually interesting, it could be IN the progress bar, to the immediate right of the blue area and advance to the right with the motion of the blue bar. When it gets to 50%, the number could stop until the bar has moves entirely to the right of the number, and then the number can continue to follow the bar on the left side until it reaches 1000%. Wouldn't that be cool?!
I recent my earlier (stupid) idea regarding the cool(?) display of a percent value that moves with the progress bar. I was obviously not remembering that the XP theme uses those little green bar thingies. So please pretend that I only ever proposed to put the percent number to the right of the progress bar :)
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Or you may put that percent value in the middle of progress bar. I would also like not only "remain" time shown, but also "ETA" (current system time + remain time). ETA for DM window title should be maximum or minimum. Maybe some sort of configuration for DM will be handy, what/where should be displayed. (also with the ability to disable the small "downloads finished" window) (maybe a good idea for some extension, if the current DM is written in a modable way ... I didn't check FireFox sources, so I'm not sure what can be done to DM from extensions/Themes) Also the small "downloads finished" window does have the text underlined and looking like a link, but when I click on it, it does not open the download manager window.
Comment 3•20 years ago
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Does this still exist under trunk?
Comment 4•19 years ago
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I don't get it, why would you want a percent value? You have the exact size displayed in kb, and you can very easily determine how much of the download is done from the progress bar. If it's half filled you know about half the download is done, why would you need to know if it's 53% or 51% done? I'd say this would be just useless clutter (and I bet it's not very hard to add with an extension; perhaps some XBL on the progress-bars).
Two examples how the percentages could be displayed. Another method would be displaying it in the text under the progress bar, e. g. "4.4 of 7.8 MB (56 %) at 74.3 kB/s; 00:46 remaining".
Comment 6•19 years ago
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There is another **** thing in the DM window. When you start downloading multiple files, for example: you first start download a movie and second you download subtitles. The precent in the title of the DM windows bugs and it's not correct. For example on the right of the movie download there is a sign : 0:20 left, but the title is on 42%.
Updated•17 years ago
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QA Contact: ali → download.manager
Updated•17 years ago
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Assignee: bugs → nobody
Updated•17 years ago
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OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 7•17 years ago
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The progressbar is sufficient - we do not need more UI clutter.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•16 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Assignee | ||
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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