FireFox annoyances
Aug. 2nd, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI'm a big fan of FireFox, so when I was having problems with a project tonight that involved a 170 Megabyte download, I assumed that it was my code that was at fault. The symptom is that downloads would be incomplete. They would usually just... stop around 160 Megs or so. Of course, this only happened with large files. Files that were only say, 15 Megs were never a problem.
I tried all sorts of things including: different buffering schemes, different block sizes, and different HTTP headers, all with no luck. Finally, I did a Google search and found this. Yep, it appears that FireFox just isn't so hot downloading very large files. I did a test in Safari and, sure enough, it worked just fine.
One thing that does make my environment different, however, is that I was downloading the file locally, as the code was running on my machine. This resulted in download rates of ~6 Megs/second and may have simply been too fast for FireFox to handle. Oh well, time to look into alternative download managers, usleep(), and/or lots of swearing.
I tried all sorts of things including: different buffering schemes, different block sizes, and different HTTP headers, all with no luck. Finally, I did a Google search and found this. Yep, it appears that FireFox just isn't so hot downloading very large files. I did a test in Safari and, sure enough, it worked just fine.
One thing that does make my environment different, however, is that I was downloading the file locally, as the code was running on my machine. This resulted in download rates of ~6 Megs/second and may have simply been too fast for FireFox to handle. Oh well, time to look into alternative download managers, usleep(), and/or lots of swearing.
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-02 08:33 am (UTC)Otherwise... wget all the way, man. wget never let me down!
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Date: 2006-08-02 02:25 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I can't use wget for this as the download is happening from a Drupal module.
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Date: 2006-08-02 04:18 pm (UTC)New download manager in FF 2.0
Date: 2006-08-02 11:23 am (UTC)In the meantime, to get booklets and extensions that might help you, I'd suggest you go here
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Date: 2006-08-02 11:25 am (UTC)Ketrava
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Date: 2006-08-02 12:45 pm (UTC)Backup your bookmarks. :-)
Or use a service like del.icio.us.
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Date: 2006-08-03 01:36 pm (UTC)Re: ????
Date: 2006-08-03 01:37 pm (UTC)