295410 - download manager automatically( in background ) start download before I press 'Save' button.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[hosseins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

when I click on a file url for download, download manager show me a dialog box
that what am I to do, Save file or open file, If i want to wait and open new tab
and continue my browsing without pressing each 'save' or 'cancel' button, the
file that I not permit to it for download and is holded, automatically start
downloading by download manager.
It is very important for low bandwith users(such modem users 21K-56K) that
browser   
don't download any file before permit of user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. press link of any file so download manager ask you for saving or opening or
canceling.
2. don't answer to this dialog window but don't close it, and continue browsing.
3. after some minutes bring to front this window and permit it for saving, you
then see download manager complete progress bar suddenly near 30 or 40 percent,
it is related to file size but i told an sample!

Actual Results:  
during my brosing when I hang the dialog window , my bandwith is too slow
because download manager automatically start download.

Expected Results:  
I expect that download manager wait until I response to it what am I doing, then
download manager go ahead.

Comment 1

[Daniel C]

I can confirm this behaviour, but this bug should be resolved INVALID. It is
intended behaviour. You say it's a bandwidth problem, but how often do files
automatically try and download themselves without you clicking a link to them?
Not often. Also, the Save dialogue is quite obvious. When it arises, Cancel is
always there to be clicked.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

That's not a bug, that's a feature. This way, the download can already start a
few seconds earlier. It's especially useful for modem users.

Comment 3

[hosseins]

(In reply to comment #2)
> That's not a bug, that's a feature. This way, the download can already start a
> few seconds earlier. It's especially useful for modem users.

I must say it that when any download is in progress and I press 'pause' link  
for give bandwidth to andother important download , download manager don't pause 
it completely an continue downloading in background so when I 'resume' this 
paused download, I see that 20 or 30 percent is downloaded until now!

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 302199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 358046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[shawdy]

so.. is this "resolved wont fix" like, they are not going to change it. cause i will actually move to safari or another browser, cause i think this is a very bad feature, and should be fixed. or at least have a feature to turn it off. eg: in about:config