Open Bug 896554 Opened 12 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Addon downloads pauses when tab is changed while downloading

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Version:
24 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: ShellHacker, Unassigned)

Details

Steps to reproduce: [1] Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-os-simulator/ [2] Add it to Firefox. (Make sure that you have other tabs open, anything be it Google / Facebook / Mozilla ) [3] When the addon is downloading, click on any other tab. You now notice that the popup showing the download progress gets hidden and it automatically pauses. You have to get back to the addon page and click on the addon icon present in the URL Bar beside the https:// to resume it again. Required working: [1] It should keep downloading without pausing and then notify the user once download is complete. Reproducible : Always Operating System : Windows 8 Professional 64 bit Browser Used : Aurora v24.0a2 Build identifier : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130721 Firefox/24.0 Built From : hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/41673cd62377
Component: Untriaged → Download Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Severity: normal → S3
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