Firefox stops downloading

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Superjakes

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I have been using Firefox for quite a long time now, and much prefer it to IE or any other browser, but recently it has been giving me a hard time. Two things happen - downloads stop/fail midway; I was trying to download a 120 meg patch, which could just not make it past 30 megs on Firefox. I tried to download it with Google Chrome and it worked fine the first time round. Secondly (and here I am not sure, it could be my connection as well, but I suspect that it is Firefox) when browsing randomly and opening new tabs on the browser from different domains, as one would do when you aimlessly surf the interwebs, at a certain point it would just stop opening stuff and page loading would fail. If I go back to the tabs after a bit, and open them one by one, they load fine. Is there a limit to the number of connections my router/pc could accept at any time, is this normal for Firefox, is there something wrong that I can fix?

Potentially, these are both symptoms of the same problem, but I need somebody clever to diagnose them and help me.
 
Very strange. Do you use Flashgot downloader with Flashget or do you use the built-in downloader with Firefox or the DownloadStatusBar add-on? Maybe try re-installing FF as well but you will then need to completely remove it. That involves going into application data folders and removing the FF directories and also clearing any registry data. Remember to restart your pc before you re-install after you completely remove it.
 
I seem to have the same problem. FF downloads a few MB then just shows that the download is complete. Strange thing it seems to happen in IE as well and on two different machines hooked to the same connection. I feel it either has something to do with my router resetting or something or maybe it's my connection. I've got a Telkom Mega 200VWR router and have 384k ADSL with MWEB. Very frustrating :mad:
 
MartyMarts said:
I seem to have the same problem. FF downloads a few MB then just shows that the download is complete. Strange thing it seems to happen in IE as well and on two different machines hooked to the same connection. I feel it either has something to do with my router resetting or something or maybe it's my connection. I've got a Telkom Mega 200VWR router and have 384k ADSL with MWEB. Very frustrating :mad:
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I had exactly the same problem a few nights ago trying to download the Nvidia update from their website. I had 9 versions of the file all different sized "completed" from IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari - No browser wanted to download the file to the end.

I then downloaded and installed Orbit download manager ( i guess any one will do) , and it completed the file first time...

Something was closing the connection through the browsers early, but couldnt do it to Orbit..i dont know what the problem was, but Orbit stopped it from happening.

Gl.
 
I'm also experiencing this problem. My theory is that (for whatever reason) the socket connection between your router and the target website goes into a dead (disconnected) state, but Firefox doesn't detect this and just keeps trying to use that connection for eternity.

Interestingly enough, this only seems to happen when SEACOM is down, so it may have something to do with rerouting traffic via SAT-3/SAFE - i.e. there is an issue with the routing.
 
Adjustments to shaping rules sometimes cause connections to drop... Why not use a download manager by default? Try the 'downthemall' firefox extension if you don't want to install another program.
 
I'm also experiencing this problem. It started happening some time ago but I thought nothing of it; now it's happening to EVERY file I try to download! I've installed Free Download Manager and it seems to have fixed the problem.

I'm of the opinion it is either an ISP or a connection problem. I'm on MWEB Uncapped. What's everyone else on?

EDIT: The problem does NOT appear to be fixed, the download manager however, manages to continue the download, whereas the browsers do not. If this affects my gaming, I will be none too pleased.
 
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All smooth sailing on my end, IDM for Firefox and using the inbuilt downloader in Chrome. I might just be a lucky son of a gun because I just finished a beta release of nVidia drivers in Chrome without a download manager and it seems error free to me.
 
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