Comment by userbinator
21 hours ago
Resumable downloads in firefox generally appear to be fairly unstable though. This has been a known problem in some form since as far back as 2005.
It's odd how the experience differs so much; I clearly remember successfully resuming a download less than a month ago, and I don't remember any time Firefox had any problems with them. My network.http.response.timeout is the default of 300.
There are reasons, but until someone actually publishes an article that's more detailed than the vagueness here, there's nothing anyone can really do about it.
It depends. If it's a basic webpage clicking the resume icon usually works fine. If it's some file hosting thing that wants you to pay a monthly fee for full download speed the resume often fails.
I prefer wget -c URL over firefox download any time.
Some sites won't give you a link to download, and will force you to download via javascript and/or posts through the browser.
You then let it start, then cancel, right click, copy download link, then use wget on the machine you want the file on.
(Back in the days before tcp window scaling, I tended to use axel)
This is the way