The Mystery of the Slow Downloads

Re:The Mystery of the Slow Downloads by amelius on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:03AM (#16527741)

Speaking of slow downloads, when I save a webpage in Chromium, it seems as if it downloads the page byte by byte, reporting progress after every byte. And another quirky thing is that if I close the tab during a download, then the download is cancelled. Did anyone else notice this?

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Re:The Mystery of the Slow Downloads by vgf on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:45AM (#16528447)

For some reason the byte counter represents number of saved files when you do a "Save complete web page" in Chromium. It still displays like "4/53 B, 5 secs left". Weirdly sloppy.

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Re:The Mystery of the Slow Downloads by sirtel on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:29AM (#16527835)

It's common. Is it because of the protocols the website/connection is using? If it is like stream, the total size won't be known until the end.

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Re:The Mystery of the Slow Downloads by icebraining on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:38AM (#16528411)

Usually a missing Content-Length in the response header.

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Re:The Mystery of the Slow Downloads by mynewtb on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:14AM (#16527965)

Same here, I think it is due to ublock origin or some other extension.

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