Firefox 3 to resume downloads across sessions
The latest Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) development release (nightly) includes the very important and expected ability to pause downloads and resume them across sessions, that is even after restarting Firefox. The addition happened just before the code freeze that started this morning in preparation for the upcoming milestone 8 (M8) expected for mid September.
The development is thanks to the work of Brahmana as one of the Mozilla mentored Summer of Code projects sponsored by Google.
While the back end code is already in, the necessary user interface is still missing and should be available in the days to come. Since download resume depends not only on the browser but also on the server capabilities, some icon is needed to let the user know whether it is possible to pause the download or not.
With the new user interface for the Download Manager currently in the works I guess hiding the pause could be enough, but will ssee what the developers come up with.
On related news, an option to easily copy the download web address (URL) was also added recently.
Comments
Jilles van Gurp
This is an important feature that makes downloading very large files more reliable without resorting to bittorrent or external download managers. Is the icon really needed though? Most servers except a few old ones should support this. Maybe a warning when closing down the browser that downloads will cannot resume on next start up and will be cancelled would be more useful in the rare event that this is the case.
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Bob
This is super news as unresumable downloads has been a big issue with me (and most others I assume). Nothing like having downloaded 90MB of a 100MB file from a server and having to start from scratch due to any number of issues.
I really like the idea of an indication of if the download is pause-able or not. Super! I have manually paused downloads not knowing the server did not allow for this.
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Vinit Nair
Great Great Great… well thought of. This is a very good news. I usually download 300 — 400 MB files. It takes a lot of time to download and one can not sit for long hours. Thanks Mozilla ..Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Praveen Markandu
does this even work. cause pausing and resuming downloads in the same session doesnt work. if you pause a 200mb file at 80mb, when you resume it, it completes and the file is only 80mb
Bob
Praveen – it does work today. Your symptoms are likely due to an attempted resume with a server that does not allow resume capabilities.
firefox sucksOctober 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hey it doesnt work when u download from rapidshare! it doesnt resume from the point u paused, instead, it just disappears! wtf
Percy CabelloOctober 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Rapidshare and perhaps all other file sharing sites expire download links once they’re started. It’s a server thing.
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Abdulah Shaikh
firefox 3 is great news. i will surely check this. however, download manager (queing of downloads) is most important. as at the moment this is the only handicap in FF. we have to go on manually adding the download files after one is complete. if a feature like DAP can be incorporated it will be great.
thanx
jacobbrett
Server resuming is disabled on some servers intentionally, for example file-sharing services.
Julio
This is good news to me too. I just got 655 of a 680mb file and got knocked off of the network only to realize once again that I will have to START OVER! I ran across this page while trying to figure out was there any other way to continue this download to completion! Oh well, this is one of the ONLY things that I don’t like about ffox…
rolf
I have always thought that download managers are ugly (ugly overkill interface… poor integration with the looks of the browser and the OS… poor support of http_authentication, cookies and such…). The number one reason that made me use them is
- Ability to resume downloads
- Ability to delay downloads
Some other plusses of download managers are:
- Ability to throttle bandwidth
- Ability to parse a page and download multiple files (very useful if you’re looking at an apache directory index)
- Ability to queue downloads (not absolutely necessary… but can be a plus)
Now firefox has tackled the most important issue! yay… hopefully they continue down that road and implement other niceties that were previously provided by download managers…!
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DonkeyJab
Does this feature work? I’m using FF3 RC1 and I still cant resume downloads. It sucks too because if FF gets an error and has to close I lose my downloads. Sucks having to redownload a 700MB file when I only had like 10MB/s to go! I wish this feature worked. :’(
Eric
Tried to download a 4 GB Fedora Iso but 2 times it stopped near the end and Firefox give me a “searching”. For what I ‘am asking myself….my internet connection is alive and the file I wanted to download is also still there.
To make things worse no resume is offered. To make it short: This “feature” of Firefox needs some finetuning…at least.
Matt everett
FireFox resume rarely works. It’s primitive and pathetic for an age old feature that should have been in browsers from the start.
Instead download managers are still the only reliable way to resume a download. Firefox is NOT WORTH relying on to resume your downloads.
Kumag VladipuqueNovember 30th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Yeah, external download managers could easily resume interrupted downloads as far back as I can remember. I just don’t know why this feature still isn’t integrated into Firefox.
James
Yea, I love firefox but it’s download resuming capabilities suck. Most download managers support resuming of downloads but only for a limited amount of time. I found this new program that can resume a download whenever you want to. There’s no time limit. Your download can fail today and you can resume it weeks from today. Here’s a link to itlink. I hope that helps. I know it’s saved me hours and hours of redownloading.
Resume Revisions
At firsts I was stuck on IE but now im totally a Firefox fan.
fajar
I was glad first time i read this news, but I’d rather be more careful to all next news about Firefox since, in fact, any download can only resumes if its server allows.
And sometimes, I don’t have many options beside waiting the download finished. Any other software can really help?
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