Firefox dnload manager sux

Ben Duncan linux4ms
Wed May 30 09:39:28 PDT 2007


As does ncftp ....

netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:
> If Firefox-2.0 is capable of resuming downloads, I've never seen it 
> happen.  I use wget when i care about resuming a download.
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> I thought the current firefox download manager did restart interrupted
>> downloads. I have not tried it.  So if your firefox is older than 2.0,
>> maybe try an upgrade.
>>
>> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:40 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> How do I change it to something sane that allows recovery?? It's getting
>>> old trying to complete a dnload of 150 megs when something goes ape and
>>> interrupts it.
>>>
>>> The chocolate lab decided to wander under my computer table after about
>>> 90 megs had completed. I'll blame him. :) Ric
>>>
> 


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