GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 300355
The "Save the link as" window doesn't appear if there is already two downloads
Last modified: 2005-05-29 20:44:24 UTC
Please describe the problem: If you want to download a lot of things, the "Save link as" dialog will not appear if two downloads are already running. When one of the two downloads finishes, all "Save link as" will appear at the same time ! Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to a site with lot of things to download (example : http://magnatune.com/artists/music/Instrumental/Ehren%20Starks/The%20Depths%20of%20a%20Year/free_download.html ) 2. Right-click on each icon and choose "Save link as" 3. The two first dialog will appear normaly. But, after that, you will have to wait for the first download to finish to see the rest. Actual results: Expected results: I don't care if Epiphany cannot download the file now and can only download two files at the same time.. What I want is that, when I click to "Download" or to "Save link as", have immediate feedback and see that the file is added to the download queue. Does this happen every time? Yes. Always reproducible. Other information: Appart this bug, the download manager is really really great ! When I was using firefox, I was always copying URL and pasting it in a xterm with wget. With Epiphany, I don't do this anymore because I like the way it is. Thank you !
This works for me, just did four concurrent downloads of that URL with 'save link as..'
Maybe the number of downloads is limited by the quality of the link and/or the ISP. Anyway, Epiphany must add the file to the queue, even if it can't download it.
This is a limitation/good behaviour enforcement in the necko library (maximum number of connections to a server). Bug 170787 will fix this by popping up the dialogue as soon as the download is requested, not only when it starts. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170787 ***