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
