On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:13:03 -0800, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:14:53 -0500, Dennis Shaw > The Mozilla/Firefox downloader is not very robust. It has improved > over time but is still (IMHO) not as good as wget. One of the > problems in the past was that Download Manager would download a file > into the temp directory and then copy the file to the destination > folder. That issue has been fixed in Mozilla...I assume it's also the case with Firefox as well. I believe how it works now is that as soon as you hit the "save" button it will start to download the file into the tmp directory in the background. When you finally select a filename and path it then moves what's already been downloaded to your pathname and continues downloading the remainder to that new path. Still, something like wget is so much more powerful than a web browser download; especially for large files. If nothing else, because of the ability to resume previously incompleted downloads. I sometimes even use that ability two switch between mirrors when the one I started using goes down...I abort wget and restart it with a different URL with the -c. Also with wget, you can actually shut down your browser if you want without canceling a long download. Or run wget as a background task, and you can even log out completely while your download continues. -- Deron Meranda
