304161 - Firefox appears to have 4GB limit on file downloads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184452

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jason Pfeil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050725 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050725 Firefox/1.0.6

When trying to download a file that is > 4GB, Firefox dutifully downloads the
first 4GB and then stops, complaining that the file could not be read.  I have
repeated this many times with the exact same results.

This is not a filesystem limit because the filesystem is an NFSv3 mounted
reiserfs filesystem with > 500GB free.  I was able to successfully download the
file using wget, but could not do so with Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download file > 4GB in size (mine was 6.4GB)
2.
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Actual Results:  
Mozilla stops downloading at 4GB and complains that the file could not be read.

Expected Results:  
Continued the download to completion.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228968 ***