Firefox dnload manager sux

Michael Hipp Michael
Wed May 30 09:42:46 PDT 2007


I use bittorrent when possible.

Failing that, wget always gets the job done.

Michael

Ben Duncan wrote:
> 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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