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by aiCeivi9 2765 days ago
Slight Offtopic - why after so many years Chrome & Firefox have so poor support for resuming interrupted file downloads? In case of Firefox I am almost sure it was better in past. I have to use 'wget -c' or https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ for bigger filles.
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chrisrhoden 2765 days ago
As I suspect you may already know, this is dependent on the server 1) indicating support for byte range requests and 2) correctly implementing it.

I don't think I have noticed Firefox getting worse at this over time, but I'm not downloading large files every day. Would you be willing to share where you're noticing this?

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nikeee 2765 days ago
It depends on the server, which has to implement HTTP Ranges [0]. Servers like nginx and Apache 2 should suport it. I'm not certain about the whole Node.js and Go backends out there. I think the support in Firefox does not have changed.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...

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