Firefox Download Still Sucks, At Least It Recovers

Same here, Firefox shows download complete even if the file is not completely downloaded. There are sites like rapidshare which do not allow to continue the download so imagine downloading a file (especially archives) when download reaches 99% firefox says download complete but you cannot open the file. You have to download the file again and again to get it right.

Hi,

Thanks Trap. I did what you said and was able to restart the download from where it left off. Saved a whole day of download time.

Essentially, failed download is saved as a *.part file e.g. “openoffice.exe.part”. You have to retry the download. Pause it. Delete the new file e.g. “openoffice.exe”. Rename the old file, by removing the “.part”.

Cheers

Have problems with files bigger than a gig download the iphone SDK its 2.9gb and has stoped twice already

Firefox download managers sucks big time. It’s simply broken. It’s like a chronic disease. My downloads stop for no reason and never resume. What a waste of bandwidth. Firefox “new” versions are getting worse and worse, using more memory and wasting resources. Simply garbage, I’m gonna try Google Chrome.

PS. I used Firefox for 6 years, since version 1.0

Omg, firefox downloader sucks ba**s! I was trying download a 2.7 gb file for 2 days (because i have a slow 512kbps connection) and it got stuck at 62%. It wouldn’t resume either and said “download failed”.

I tried using getright but it said connection fobidden bla bla… Anyway, i could get it running again by restarting the download and replacing the new part file with the failed one.

Ugh! What a waste of time

But i think it happens when bandwith is congested because i was downloading other things as well at the same time

I have the only problem with Firefox download manager. It just marks items I’m downloading as finished sometimes. Of course you can resume the download after it fails and it will just continue, but still, like at the moment I’m downloading a file of size of 1GiB. In additional it downloads very slowly, so it takes a while…

In other words… I wish Firefox download manager was OK. It’s still buggy.

Oh!!! its sucks. It always get stuck and very slow in downloading. But a plug-in like download them all will do much better if you don’t wanna switch to a download manager software.

Turning off the screen saver helps, at least it did help on my vista business laptop. The screen saver seems to interrupt firefox downloading somehow. No error message appears and you’re left with an useless portion.

Use a download manager which submits resume. I use wget.

I am facing a problem. I am downloading a file from internet & after sometime my net connection failed when again connected the file(which i am loading) is stopped & there is no option to continue from there. I downloaded 70% of file. Then again downloading is waste of time. Please tell me if you have any idea to continue the downloading from there(70%). My mail id is vinod.rbs.uk@gmail.com

I too have seen it once or twice. Firefox download manager still sucks.

My experience is the same as Bipp’s. I am running Firefox 3.0.3 under Vista.

Files (particularly PDFs) that download without any problem in MSIE often just get stuck part way through in Firefox. Often they get stuck at the same spot, e.g., at the 1.62 MB mark in a 2.59 MB file. There seems to be no facility to resume download in the Download Manager. Eagerly looking forward to a solution!

Hi,I never had any problems with any previous versions of FireFox up until v3.0.3 my download manger does exactly as this other poster,

“I realized that Firefox 1.0 download manager often completes abruptly declaring the file download as completed, even when only a portion of the file is downloaded. This is very frequent in slow connections. At this point there is also no facility to re-download the file or better yet recover from the failed download.

Secondly firefox pause function fails frequently, refusing to resume thereafter.

Often downloads are stuck in the middle with the status information disappearing. At that point the download thread seems to be in somewhat zombie state. Nothing works!”

SO how to fix this problem?

Wondering if you have the same experience.

I am using JDK 1.6. The VM settings are at default. Is java required for downloading files?
I have Java disabled on my browser for better performance.

I also have reports of Firefox 3 crashing regularly and unexpectedly in at least one Windows XP installation.
I use Linux on which it seems stable.

Now that’s a strange report. I haven’t ever really experienced a glitch with Firefox/Mozilla Download.
Is your Java release up to date? How about Virtual Memory settings?
I have successfully downloaded a large file (350Mb) just today in fact. C
Vista/P4 i386 32b