Irregular Firefox Downloads

[phume03]

Firefox 99.2.0 (Build #2015874211),
3fbd94a+
AC: 99.0.10, 2cf4dbe50f
GV: 99.0.1-20220411174855
AS: 91.1.1
on Android mobile sometimes has irregular downloads that supposedly write to /dev/null. Which is a "throw away device" on *nix systems. They do not indicate a file size, nor do they indicate an estimated time of download.

In addition, some downloads terminate irregularly. They do not showu up on the browser's downloads history (as incomplete downloads). Nor, do they show up on the downloads app (or Documents 7.1.1). Please note that this is irregular because if an internet connection fails during a download, it is displayed in the download history with an option to continue (restart/try again) or cancel the download.

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[cadeyrn]

Firefox 99.2.0

Pleasae test with a current version of Firefox. Do you still have problems?

[LaurentiuApahideanSV]

@phume03 Could you provide us with some examples of the files you had issues downloading?

[phume03]

Hi Laurentiu, No, I cannot do that. Infact, if I recall clearly it has happened with different large (above 100MB) and small (less than 50MB) size file formats (and things in between). I figured it might be an observed phenomenon that had not yet been raised. But yes, instead of the usual descriptor/name of the file being downloaded, the initiated download link appears not to start downloading, and then starts randomly some seconds or a few minutes later. It does not have the usual progress bar, similar to file downloads where the server has not provided file size, so the progress cannot be determined. The first time I caught it late but I did and saved myself data I suspect — because who knows what was being downloaded and how big it was. The only description was "downloading /dev/null". Regards, Phume

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See: #17373 This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[boek]

Moved to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1812783

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