269779 - Firefox download time is always beaten by NetTransport with 2 threads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40106

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[R.Sathish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox does not use multiple threads in Download manager.
This results in poor performance.
Low BW - 2threads
High BW - No limit

Firefox will do great with a Multithreaded download manager-
User configurable threads,
Auto deduce right number of threads

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download a big fiel in Firefox. Time it. This is in 40 kbps
2.Next day(To account for caching), download same file in NetTranport. Time it.
Use 2 threads.
3.See the diffrence.

Actual Results:  
Firefox is very slow compared to Net Transport. (Double the time)

Expected Results:  
Should have spanned 2 threads and given same performance as Net Transport.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40106 ***

Comment 2

[R.Sathish]

This bug does not MANDATE using download accelerator with multiple mirrors, but
asks for multithreading only as in Net Transport.

Hence this is not a duplicate.

But a separate enahncement.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and where is the difference between downloading with 2 segments from one source
or doing that from 2 different sources ?

This is a 100% dupe.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40106 ***