298252 - ability to limit bandwidth/speed to the download manager

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Käser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

I would like to request for the feature that the bandwith usage for a download
or all downloads can be limited while the download is running.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

this is something for an extension and definitly not what everyone would use

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 312974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 334949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[thomas.klammer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> this is something for an extension and definitly not what everyone would use
> 
Imagine you are the admin of a company. You have to download a servicepack or a linux distribution NOW and not during the night. When you start your download it uses nearly all the bandwidth of the internet acces and the rest of the company is calling all the time, why the internet is so slow. If you could set up in Firefox-Downloadmanager, that only a limited bandwidth for that download will be used, you are out of troubles!.

Comment 5

[Roland Käser]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > this is something for an extension and definitly not what everyone would use
> > 
> Imagine you are the admin of a company. You have to download a servicepack or a
> linux distribution NOW and not during the night. When you start your download
> it uses nearly all the bandwidth of the internet acces and the rest of the
> company is calling all the time, why the internet is so slow. If you could set
> up in Firefox-Downloadmanager, that only a limited bandwidth for that download
> will be used, you are out of troubles!.
> 
Thats exactly what I meant as I wrote this feature enhancement. Thanks Thomas for this good explanation, I couldn't describe it better.

When will it be done in the firefox release? 
(For the developpers, take a look at the wget sources, there is a routine to limit the bandwith wile downloading files. It may can be used for firefox to.

Comment 6

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

*** Bug 336135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Confirming as feature request based on the dupes and votes.

Comment 9

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I'm sorry, but I don't see us wanting this.  A more useful thing might be to limit the application itself.

Comment 10

[Imre Péntek]

(In reply to comment #9)
Is this more useful thing present in your bugtracker?

Comment 11

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

not that I am aware of

Comment 13

[Amish Munshi]

I wish this feature was available. I download multiple large downloads most of the time from various websites. I would like to limit the download speed of individual downloads in the download manager. 

This will be a great add-on for firefox. I realize that this will not be used by every user, but how about providing an extension or a plugin that can do this?

Comment 15

[Kevin Brosnan]

v. Wontfix from a component peer

Comment 16

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Could someone explain the WONTFIX a bit better. Thanks.

Comment 17

[Kevin Brosnan]

Shawn said in comment 9 that a fix that was scoped to only the download manager is wontfix. Generalized core:networking code is wontfix'ed in bug 193532.

Comment 19

[Aaron Lawrence]

Bug 101711 had 17 votes... so this is actually a relatively highly requested feature. Not that votes mean anything.

Comment 20

[Tech Notes]

More than this feature, I would much more prefer to have ability to limit bandwidth to specific websites.  Such as Netflix, Crackle, Hulu, and other bandwidth intense services.  The reason is that I have determined that some computers get overwhelmed when very high speed bandwidth is available to them, thus high rate of traffic flow and memory and CPU usage caused by the browser, and when the same computer accesses the media service on a slower bandwidth connection, no failure or crash or problems with the browser.  Reason is that the rate of data flow gets limited.  The slower speed still provide great viewing and media experience.  The faster speed causes too high resource usage, and creates problems.  I've submitted this as a request to Mozilla's Firefox Feedback/Suggestions.  Titled it as "Want Firefox feature of Bandwidth Throttle/Limit Per Site or IPA or URL" and that is different from limiting/throttling bandwidth on all of Firefox or for just downloads/uploads.