Why doesn't Firefox warn me I'm downloading stuff on close?

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Miuku.

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I'm cautious enough for that to happen at me. But it doesn't by default? :omg:

That's bad design.

Yes and no - if the servers in question are.. "properly configured", you can resume the transfer when you open your browser again.

Unfortunately this is not the case with many locations and craptacular services like Filesonic, Rapidshare et al.

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Elliot B.

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I'm cautious enough for that to happen at me. But it doesn't by default? :omg:

That's bad design.

Yeah, it's bad design, I'm with you. Most servers I know don't allow download resuming.

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Jen Smith

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If I recall, the download window is shown by default unless you turned it off, so even if you close the browser window that'll still be running. Personally I use Download StatusBar (not a fan of the extra window), if I have something running and I close the browser, it'll automatically pop open the download window so downloads don't get interrupted. Good to know for the QuitBehavior config though, jotting that one down.

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If I recall, the download window is shown by default unless you turned it off, so even if you close the browser window that'll still be running. Personally I use Download StatusBar (not a fan of the extra window), if I have something running and I close the browser, it'll automatically pop open the download window so downloads don't get interrupted. Good to know for the QuitBehavior config though, jotting that one down.

Yes, this is the behaviour that I'm used to but I recently got download statusbar as I was expecting FF4 to make it.. well.. good. It didn't so I figured there's an add-on to make it good.

The download window doesn't automatically pop-up for me though.. ah well I really don't want to see it anyway :p

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Jen Smith

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The download window doesn't automatically pop-up for me though.. ah well I really don't want to see it anyway :p

Yea there's an option for it to pop up the download window on quit but I dont think its on by default.. but since you're not wanting to see it anyways, yea the other method is obviously better.

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Doesn't Chrome also do this on Windows?

I seem to remember closing a browser window and the entire program shutting down. Arg. :angry: Though this behaviour may have changed now.

God bless OS X for not quitting anything if you close the window. :laugh:

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When I close Firefox with a download in progress , the download manager box remains open and shows that there is a Download in Progress. This is default behavior. I have never done this but I just tried it to see what happens.

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grayscale

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I've gone for using Download Manager Tweak, so I can have it in a tab, on top of setting browser.taskbar.previews.enable to true. See the pic to get what that setting does. I can also pin the download manager tab as an App Tab if I want, too.

Fx4 already has that on options:

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