302315 - Firefox auto-limits number of simultaneous downloads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258496

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Christopher Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 SUSE/1.0.4-1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 SUSE/1.0.4-1.1

The Download Manager will internally (and invisibly) queue downloads if a user
tries to start more than two simultaneous downloads from the same site; the page
the user was on will mysteriously spin for no apparent reason.  As soon as one
download finishes, the save dialog will pop up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Attempt to start 3 simultaneous downloads of large files (the Solaris CD set
works  well).


Expected Results:  
If the Download Manager is going to queue downloads, it should go ahead and put
the save dialog up first and list the file in the Downloads window (and possibly
let the user force-start the download); currently the user is forced to sit and
wait for CD 3 to finish downloading so he can click on "OK" to save CD 5.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

As per bug 83526 comment 44, this is on spec. Firefox should only have 2
connections open to any one server at a time.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258496 ***