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General browser capabilities

In the following table:

• P = available through Primary UI (menu items, toolbar)
• S = available through Secondary UI (anywhere else)
• blank = not available
• # = see item in Notes
• The browsers listed are, in order: Firefox 2, Camino, Flock, iCab, IE7, Maxthon, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, and Shiira.

	Fx2	Cam	Flo	iCa	IE7	Max	Net	Omn	Ope	Saf	Sea	Shi
Pause/Resume - Same session
Pause/Resume - Across sessions
Pause/Resume - Auto-pause on network failure
Pause/Resume - Auto-resume on network reconnect
Download History - View
Download History - Sort (alpha, date, etc)
Download History - Edit (Clear one, selected, all)
Download History - Autoexpire and clear items
Protocols - FTP
Protocols - Torrent
Protocols - Other
Download Queues - Create/manage new queues
Download Queues - Create/manage multiple queues
Download Queues - Start/pause/resume/stop/cancel queues
Download Queues - Schedule downloads
Download Queues - Save/restore queues
Download Speed - Throttling
Download Speed - Acceleration
Download linked file
Download selected linked files
Download all linked files
Download Manager - View
Download Manager - Auto-close/Hide
Download Manager - View/go to file
Download Manager - Open file
Download Manager - Move/manipulate/delete files
Download Manager - Mark file as favourite
Download Manager - Tag, group, categorize, organize files
Download Manager - Search
Download Manager - Advanced Search
Download Manager - Default download dir
Download Manager - Customizable download dir
Download Manager - Multiple customizable download dirs
Download Manager - Smart download dirs
Accessibility features (y/n?)
Anti-virus integration
Download prefs (link to list)	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link
Screenshots (link to shots)	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link	link

Notes

• ? - Not 100% sure about this

• BROWSER : CAPABILITY : Note