Comment #17 on issue 406 by [email protected]: Downloading is troublesome; incomplete files, broken pause http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=406
A recent version of Chrome (~ 2.0.170+) has been having exceptional problems with downloading files. This weekend I downloaded nearly 1GB of stuff from around the Internet ranging from 2KB to 100MB, and was very dissappointed to find that most of the files over 100KB were corrupt! After struggling with Chrome’s download history to figure out what I had gotten and where, I managed to re-download them. I compared them and found that Chrome seems to have been dropping a few to several KB from each file, and not only that, but chunks of what it did download were corrupt (not in the actual file). Worse, it seems to be a crap-shoot since downloading the same file with Chrome (after clearing the cache), would sometimes work, and sometimes result in a corrupt file. ?! (Using wget or FireFox, or IE, etc. would always work.) After some thought on what the heck could be causing it, I think it may be related to the pause-resume problem. I wonder if maybe Chrome chokes if the file downloads too fast, so it drops and resumes, causing the corruption. (I’d have to check a graph of the network activity though.) -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
