For what it's worth, using gtm with galeon seems to be the best of both worlds for me. Downloads can be resumed, there's a single window where I can see the progress of all my downloads, I can set a default location for downloads to be placed, and change it at download time if I please, etc. Personally, I haven't used mozilla for handling downloads ever since it decided to decompress .gz files on the fly without telling me. Sean On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 16:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > There's a perfectly logical reason for doing that. Do you think some > > user's might try to open the file before the download is complete? > > I find myself doing it all the time. Consider streaming media, plain > text documents, etc. These days I find it easier to copy the link and > launch wget on it than to use mozilla's clumsy download mechanism. > > > What if the download fails to finish? Will less sophisticated users > > think Mozilla downloaded the file and then subsequently deleted it? > > Mozilla should support resuming downloads and then that wouldn't be an > issue. Or download to filename.incomplete and rename when done. There > are all sorts of ways this could be handled better. > > -- > see shy jo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc
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