237338 - Download progress is lost when the same file is downloaded from another URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236514

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040226 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040226 Firefox/0.8.0+

Say you have two identical files on two different servers.
If you begin downloading from one server, and then download from another server,
the progress on the first download is completely lost.

For large downloads, this can be quite frustrating, because you lose everything
you had downloaded so far.

As for the solution, I am not sure which is appropriate.  Perhaps we could add
in a confimation asking if they want to cancel the current download and start
over?  ... and for those servers that allow resume capability, perhaps offer the
user the choice to continue downloading from the new server?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236514 ***