471305 - No Warning that downloads are present when closing firefox. Downloads killed.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[kd5cna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

If I am downloading a file with the manager not visible...
When I close firefox, there is no reminder that I am downloading a file. The partial file is left in place, but is not resumable in the download manager when I re-open firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.begin downloading file
2.close download manager (if open)
3.close firefox
Actual Results:  
Downloading of file is broken. Partial download is left behind with no way to resume.

Expected Results:  
When closing firefox, it should warn if you are downloading a file and give you the option to not close, or at least continue downloading with the file manager open.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

I tried this out but was not able to reproduce the problem. There's indeed no warning while closing but the download continues after reopening.
Maybe an extension is causing the problem?

Comment 2

[blwy10v]

This bug shows up only for servers that do not support download resuming, i.e. all major file hosts like depositfiles, megaupload, mediafire etc.

This is especially annoying for such file hosts when we cannot always get a download token, so we have to use greasemonkey scripts and all to wait on the page and get one for us, and then when it's downloading a large file and we forget that it is downloading a large file, and then we close firefox, and then the download stops, and of course cannot be resumed. So we start over.

It is erroneous to think that the warning can be removed just because some servers allow downloading resuming. Even if a significant proportion of servers allow it, already the common use case of such one-click file hosting services invalidates this feature. Furthermore, why can't we be provided the option of making Firefox 3 behave like the old one? I cannot find an option in about:config to turn on the warnings again. Methinks this was the wrong design decision to make

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

If the server says that it supports resuming, we do not warn.  If the server doesn't support resuming but says it does, you should contact that provider, but we cannot do anything about it.