GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675363
Migrate downloads from window to window
Last modified: 2015-10-29 12:39:02 UTC
A download is on-going in a window, and I would expect that download to continue even without a window to back it. Except that epiphany wants to cancel my download if I close that window. In contrast, Chrome/Chromium will carry on downloading, even if the window is gone, you'd just get told about closing the application.
We considered this, but figured we'd need to have a UI somewhere to track downloads otherwise it would be too confusing. Chrome has about:downloads or whatever, so I think we should do something similar if we want to separate the download action itself from the UI where it's shown.