On Wed, 02 May 2012 12:03:37 -0400, hawker wrote: > On 5/2/2012 11:56 AM, Philip Chee wrote: >> On Wed, 02 May 2012 11:49:46 -0400, hawker wrote: >>> On 5/2/2012 1:05 AM, MCBastos wrote: >>>> Interviewed by CNN on 01/05/2012 20:30, Patrick Crumhorn told the world: >>>>> >>>>> Since patching to SM 2.9.1 this morning, multiple downloads are broken. >>>>> I used to be able (as of >>>>> last night even) to go to a site and start a download of an audio file >>>>> from an html link, then do >>>>> another one or two at the same time, but now when I start a new download, >>>>> it will not start unless I >>>>> pause the download already in progress. And the paused d/l will not >>>>> restart until I pause or >>>>> complete or kill the other one. This is a real problem - any suggested >>>>> workarounds? (Using XP >>>>> Professional, btw). >>>> >>>> The DownThemAll extension. If you download lots of files, you probably >>>> will like it so much that you won't *care* if the bug is ever fixed. >>>> >>> >>> So is this a known and reported bug? >>> DownThemAll has a built in "accelerator" which implies that the download >>> happens though DownThemAll's server not direct. That is a privacy >> >> No "download accelerator" doesn't imply that the download happens though >> DownThemAll's server at all. What makes you think that? >> >> And anyway if it goes through an intermediate server then it would be >> slower not faster. >> >> Phil >> > > The way download accelerators have always worked, AFAIK is the the > assumption that a accelerator company (it used to be your ISP) has a > faster pipe. It downloads it, re compresses it and sends it to you that > way, then your end decompresses. This step takes a host server. This is > why they mostly don't work per the test on the net (IE files tend to > already be as compressed as they can, and we now all have fat pipes). > They are a leftover from dial up days that worked with non compressed files.
Those are download proxy servers, not download acclerators like Flashget and DownThemAll > If you have different information, and modern download accelerators > don't work like the old ones, than I would love to be enlightened. All Download Managers do is to open multiple channels to the server where the file is located and then each channel downloads a different chunk at the same time. This only works with servers that allow chunked downloads but this is most of them these days. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
