On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:42:14 +0100 Eirik Oeverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure this has been asked time and again, but.. Why on earth does > Mozilla do wrong perhaps the one most annyoing thing IE does - that is to > download files to a temporary directory and then copying them to the > target directory?? > > This behaviour is not only annoying and unnecessary, it can lead to real > problems from time to time.. I won't be lengthy about this here, as I'm > sure this topic has been discussed before. But for what it's worht - I had > thought it obvious that this is _not_ the way to do downloads..
Not that I agree with it, but the reason seems to be: to allow the data to come in, while "where to put it" is still being determined. I would be in favor of Mozilla downloading to the current "browser.download.directory", instead of to a temporary directory. I find it somewhat disconcerting that sometimes, when I click 'OK' in the (save-to) file dialog, the system is busy for a fraction of a second, and then nothing more happens. (Apparently, the actual transport had finished while the dialog was still being shown, and all that remained to be done was the final placement of the file.) If Mozilla had the smarts, one situation where fetching to a temporary directory could quicken things is if there is ALREADY a file by that name in the destination directory. The transport (download) could go ahead while the user figures out what he wants done with which version of the file. mikus
