Comment by ubercow13
18 hours ago
It's ridiculous isn't it. I remember being incredulous at how bad browsers were at downloading files back in like 2004 too, when download managers were almost an essential everyday tool. You would think it would be one of their primary competencies, but they are worse than almost any other tool at it.
Luckily the reliability of the internet has improved since then and it's less of a problem, until you encounter a bad connection or server.
You would think it would be possible to avoid the bugs by breaking a browser up into discrete components, and have it call curl each time. perhaps there is a speed penalty i do not know about.