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July 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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
July 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
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.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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!
November 7th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I too have seen it once or twice. Firefox download manager still sucks.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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
March 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Use a download manager which submits resume. I use wget.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:22 am
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.
July 4th, 2009 at 5:11 am
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.
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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