277811 - Allow cancelling of Firefox download of PDFs when open in browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Darrell Norton]

This feature is proposed due to problems with PDFs (see 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274077).

Steps to reproduce:
When downloading a large PDF that will open in the browser (large depends on
your connection speed), Firefox will "lock up" and not respond to anything.  If
it is a really large PDF, or my connection goes to ****, then I have to kill the
Firefox process (and all my open browser windows) or wait forever until the
download finished.

Desired:
The ability to "cancel" the download. You can close the tab or just quit
downloading or *anything* non-crashing, just make it so I can stop downloading a
PDF when it is set to "open in browser".  Pretty please...

Comment 1

[Rob]

Attachment: PDF files misbehaving

See attachment

Comment 2

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

Which Adobe Reader (i.e. plugin) version in use?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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