257907 - Display dowload progress in the taskbar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132576

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mark Madden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

The download manager's title text in the taskbar should display a 'percentage
complete' indicator when I'm downloading something. Thus, if I'm performing a
lengthy download and, say, minimize the download manager and start writing a
novel on my favourite word processor, I can see how far my download has
progressed by simply glancing at the taskbar. Much nicer :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla.
2. Download something.
3. Witness the fact that the taskbar gives no indication as to download progress.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

And what should happen if there is more than one download running? If you want
progress in the status bar, switch to the Progress Dialog under
Navigator->Downloads in the preferences.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has been filed before (and marked invalid or wontfix, iirc).  Please find
the original and mark this duplicate.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Nearest dupe i could find would be Bug 234396, that one was about Firefox.

Comment 4

[Robin Monks]

Duping to exactly similar bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72982 ***

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

nope, this one here is about download manager, not about progress dialog.

Comment 6

[irongut]

Can't find a better dup than bug 72982 but I think this should be INVALID or
WONTFIX since there is no way to decide which progress to show for multiple
downloads and there is already a different way to do this (progress windows).

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132576 ***