Firefox download manager appears broken

I was having the same problem downloading an Oracle file using Firefox - it would appear to go to a limbo state after downloading 99%. I tried switching to IE, which Oracle recommended - it was one of their files I am downloading. The same exact thing is happening with IE. In the meantime, I just paid $75 for an e-book I cant open without this Secured PDF opener file.

Thank You guys… you were too helpful…

thx everyyone.

THANK YOU

Went into C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\stkdv2o6.default and deleted DOWNLOADS.RDF and I have my DL manager back.

Hope that path helps the next person with this problem.

Try deleting downloads.rdf in the profile folder.

Yes I download GetRight and it resumed by broken Firefox download. You saved me downloading 1.5GB again. Thanks.

Download Getright,

it will allow you to resume your .part files caused by firefox.

Ben

Talk about frustrating. Try downloading the same file 59 different times only to have the dumb thing freeze continuously what a waste of time. I would definitely appreciate a change to F.F. download manager as well or find a browser that is actually decent enough to have already corrected this problem . I am a cable user with WOW and I have their lowest paying package. Needless to say, even with cable this still presents a problem. SO HEY FIX THE PROBLEM ALREADY!!!!!! (Please??!)

I HAV GOT A VIRUS FOR FIREFOX, I M NOT ABLE TO OPEN IT FROM FEW DAYS…..I REALLY LUV THIS BROWSER BUT HELP ME OUT, WHENEVER I TRY TO OPEN IT PROMPTS”USE IE OR ELSE YOU DOPE”PLZ DO THE NEEDFULL….

I could of swore 1 gigabyte equals 1,024 megabytes.

i got a similar problem on my Windowns 2000 machine. Firefox’s download manager always worked very well for me, even on 64Kb/s ISDN. Even pausing downloads went incredibly smooth. I have installed Free Download Manager some time back but replaced it recently with FlashGet (but GetRight seems good to!). I started noticing that I have difficulty right-clicking and saving images, so I used FDM to do it. Then I realized the FF download manager is *broken*. Firefox still downloads files to my HD, the .part files are visible. But it’s completely silent. No poping up the download manager and no indication of progress. If I close FF it doesn’t warn me of losing the download. This *totally sucks*. With the advent of FF 2.0 I ran into another ugly problem: clicking the OK button on the bookmark dialog *wipes out the title of the bookmark*. The topmost “Bookmarks” folder doesnt like to be selected in the list either i have to open the list and select it. So all my bookmarks now have a trailing space. I love this browser - but it can really do with a sourcecode service.

FIREFOX stopped at 99% after I downloaded a 1 gig file that took 12 hours, I’ve been trying to get the file for two days…. it’s from a site where I can’t use a download mananager so I can’t resume if anything goes wrong. It was at fucking 967 out of 978 megs… You can imagine how pissed I was….

hi, i was downloading FREE avg antivirus via firefox downloader with a peace of mind that i could restart the download just in case. But I was wrong. After 85% of the total download i.e. 16MB via a 1kbps wireless internet connection and about 5 hours, I am left with no option except to go out of my home to a net cafe with a better internet speed. I thought firefox download manager will come to my help, but ALAS, i was utterly wrong in presuming. this is an open source software and such a critical error should have beeen resolved at least by the 50th release of firefox. Anyways, i continue using firefox as i got no other option. But in future, I will start to use getright as my favourite downloder software. sorry, but firefox should have this nice feature properly built or NOT included at best.

happens to me all the time.
the download manager marks the download as complete while only a portion of it is downloaded. and it happens to all versions of ff, nobody solved this bug i guess.

i’m a frequent downloader and this hell tells me that ff ain’t as good as you all think. now i really hate ff.

damn, FF fails me again

it just paused at 2 gigabytes downloading a 2.5 gig file from a https://ftp. resume does not work! Pressing cancel deletes the file entirely. I left my computer on all night to download this file and it was hard for me to sleep from all the fan noise, thanks a lot FF.

I love firefox, but this stuff happens to me all the time! The download manager is horrible. How often have you gotten through 96% of a large file only for it to completely stop everything it is doing and hang there? Then you can’t finish the download, you have to restart it and have it happen again.

It’s not a slow connection for me. My connection is great. I actually have to use Internet Explorer to download files nowadays b/c of how crappy FF’s downloader is. And I HATE IE!!!!

Hi

Its sad to see download manager report “download complete” for cases where the internet link gets disconnected or line drops.
Ironically, same download manager which knows before hand that the download file is of 4.6mb does not realise that at 1.4mb download its corrupted.

it should actually pause and wait for user to ensure that link is up again and resume from there - i dont know if anyone has pointed it out earlier or this is taken care by some add-on.

guys/gals pls throw some light on any tips or tricks you would know to avoid this.

regards

limited

I’m using broadand and I normally have no trouble at least starting downloads of any size with firefox. The problem is the pause function. When I try to resume a paused download, the gauge instantly fills up as if it were complete.

Mine doesn’t even came up. And i open it via Cltr J short cut, and the download list is empty even though it is actually still downloading the stuff i intended to download.

I tried to reinstall the firefox, it doens’t work. Nothing seem to work for me so far.

Does anyone know any trick to correct this?

I try to download from Firefox and the box comes up like it is suppose to. I click save to disk…then it just says that the d/l is complete instantly without even d/l anything at all. Why’s this? does anyone else have this problem?

in cases like this, I use Opera to download large files

IE for a stupid IE-only online banking site

and Firefox for all the rest

Still a constant problem on dial-up trying to down-load a 1 meg file attachment from gmail even with the latest program updates. I had been getting 99% cpu cycles (watching task manager) until I cleaned up the down-load manager. Thought I had the problem solved with that suggestion … but no, it still failed even with cpu cycles running low.

Hi

This bug is still present in 1.5.0.4.

Downloading at home works fine, but at work the Internet connection is not quite as smooth and the Firefox progress bar just stops.

I have to copy the link to Safari, which maintains the download ‘connection’ just fine.

happens to me all da time.. aaarghhhhhh

1.5.0.1’s download manager has the same problem –
I just lost 46MB of a 96MB download (on dial-up)
due to this. This is the worst deficiency of the
browser!

how to get download resume after power failier

Yes I have installed extentions. Is there any particular one that might be the problem?
Thank you.

Have you install any new extensions?

My download manager doesn’t look the same or work the same as it did before. I don’t have a clue what changed it. It used to be a large box with a graph showing the progress of the download and options I could choose. I could scroll through all my downloads to date. Now it’s a long small horizontal box that doesn’t show anything or let me do anything and it doesn’t show my previous downloads.

i have had this problem for MONTHS and MONTHS. everytime i “save image as” firefox downloader opens and all firefox windows freeze. They can freeze for minutes at a time and if i am trying to download many images this can get very very frustrating. I have searched the internet for a solution for months to no avail, until today. Once I cleared the downloads the problem disappeared. thank you.