295399 - Don't display progress bar for downloads of unknown size

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[web]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When downloading a file of unknown size, the download manager shows an empty
progress bar for the file.  This makes it seems at first glance as though
nothing has been downloaded.  It also wastes space, as it conveys no
information.  Simply omitting the progress bar would make clearer what was
happening.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrew Line]

Your argument does makes sense. Could you provide a sample download of unknown
size so people can easily view the bug. thanks

Comment 2

[web]

Attachment: Screenshot of a download of unknown size.

Comment 3

[dave]

if file size is larger than 2GB, it shows negative numbers for speed and file size

Comment 4

[dave]

(In reply to comment #3)
> if file size is larger than 2GB, it shows negative numbers for speed and file size

sorry, when the downloaded size gets above 2GB the numbers go negative, windows
xp, firefox 1.0.4

Comment 5

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Comment 6

[web]

This is still a problem in Firefox 1.5 beta 1.  Here's a URL that illustrates the problem: http://www.go-
mono.com/archive/1.1.9.1_0/macosx/MonoFramework-1.1.9.1.dmg

Comment 7

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Confirming this as a feature request.

Comment 9

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

a=mconnor

Comment 10

[web]

Any reason why?

Comment 11

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

It currently uses a progressmeter that is undetermined - removing it just doesn't make sense?