how to resume firefox broken download
Sometime Firefox download process get stuck and can’t be resumed. Can you imagine downloading a big movie, 90 percent completed, and stuck without able to resume? Fortunately we have a good browser Safari. Although I prefer Firefox for daily use, but sometime Safari can really save my ass (and my bandwidth).
If you want to know how, just follow my step. It was based on my experiment when downloading the latest Bootcamp in Firefox and get stuck in the middle.
1. View the url of the file being downloaded in Firefox download window. Do not cancel this download process as Firefox will remove the temporary file.
2. Firefox name the temporary file using the same name of the download file plus .part extension. Find out this file and make a note of the file size.
3. Open Safari, copy the download url into the address bar, and download it. After the download process started, simply stop download, clear the download history, and close safari.
Safari will create a temporary folder and store download status information in your download destination (default to desktop). The folder is named same with the download file plus .download extension. This folder containing three files, the file being downloaded itself, the icon file, and the .plist file.
4. Open the .plist file using text editor, find your download entry and look for the download progress information. Replace the value under the key <key>DownloadEntryProgressBytesSoFar</key> and <key>NSURLDownloadBytesReceived</key> with the Firefox’s temporary file size. Be careful with this value or your file will be corrupted.
5. Rename firefox temporary file, remove the .part extension and copy it to the safari temporary folder to replace the current file.
6. In Finder, double click the .download folder to resume download in Safari.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
what’s a safari :-/ ?
free download manager is the best
:D hehe..
April 11th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
wuehh… ko komen gw ga nongol…
( curang..!!!
kayanya dianggep spam ya
April 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Wadowww.. ribet banget (koq bisa kepikiran sih??)
kalo aku biasanya pas download window firefox kebuka.
Copy link nya trus add download pake Flash Get All Done!!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Would this work with WindowsXP?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
The .plist file can not be located,
February 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Sam, sorry cannot help. Are you sure following all steps?