312974 - A small bandwidth management function for the download manager would be great

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298252

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[thomas.klammer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

It would be great, if I could decide for each download how much maximum bandwith
it is allowed to usw. I use Firefox in a company network and we have a limited
bandwidth for all users. If I start a download of a Linux distribution all
others in the company have a slow internet connection. It wouldn't matter for me
if the download takes one or two hours more, but there is no easy way to manage
that.
I think of an additional listbox next to the active download in the download
manager window, where I can choose the maximum download speed that should be
used for this specific file.

Reproducible: Always




It would be great, if you could do that. I am sure many users with a shared
internet connection would be very pleased. As far as I know nowbody thought of
something like that. So you would have another enhancement that MS doesn't think of.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298252 ***