On 10/17/13, Rickles <[email protected]> wrote: > Rickles wrote: >> Lee wrote: >>> On 10/16/13, Rickles <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 >>>> Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21; been a Moz/SM user since Moz v1.x >>>> >>>> Just upgraded to SM2.21, and used Add-ons Mgr to check for versions of >>>> plugins, etc. Several plugins req'd updates as well, and that's when I >>>> observed strange behavior with Download Mgr. >>>> >>>> Clicked the red 'Update' button for each update req'd (Adobe Rdr, >>>> Shockwave and Flash; JRE) one at a time, knowing I'd get files >>>> downloaded which would require running individually. Each download >>>> failed the first time from the respective source web page link, then >>>> worked flawlessly when I either re-clicked the 'Update' again, or used >>>> the 'Retry' icon in the DM status window. >>>> >>>> I also had the same behavior with a download from a genealogy tool's >>>> website, when I bought a major version upgrade. Their link opened SM's >>>> Download Mgr, and it failed first time, too. Again, retrying the >>>> download without closing/reopening windows worked fine. And this one >>>> was after updating the SM plugins and re-starting the browser. >>>> >>>> In each case, the download appears to run right to the end, then fails. >>> >>> have an a/v installed that takes a while to do a scan? Try opening >>> about:config and changing >>> browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone >>> to false & see if that makes a difference >>> >>> Regards, >>> Lee >>> >> I use AVG (paid version), and it's interface doesn't appear to have >> settings which lend themselves to scans of file downloads. And the CPU >> activity doesn't reflect a scan going on. But I've set the config item >> as you suggest. Initial try appears to work. But it's late, so I'll >> have to pick it up tomorrow with more in-depth tests. Will report back. >> Thanks! > > Update: I've changed the pref back to its default, and can't get any > downloads to fail. I've made a note of this thread so can re-apply the > suggested change at will. thanks again.
You're welcome & I'm glad everything is working for you again. The bad news is that the behavior you've seen could be explained by the hard drive problems. If you haven't checked or defragged the hard drive in a while now would be a good time to make a full backup. USB terabyte drives don't cost all that much any more -- aren't all that fast either tho. Then find something like http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm that will show you how the drive is doing. chkdsk /f /r takes many hours on my PC, but it will fix errors on the drive & check for bad sectors. Then do a manual defrag, which also can take hours. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
