Firefox/Feature Brainstorming: Difference between revisions

* Allow connection timeouts to pause the download instead of closing it. This will help people with slow or unreliable connections like [http://tor.eff.org tor] to continue downloading even if their connection fails on them.

*Download Tagging. On a page where you wish to download from many links, it might be helpful to be able to to tag links for download. When you've finished tagging all the links you want, you could start a dedicated Download Manager session which would download all the links you've tagged to a specified folder, and even, perhaps, run certain actions on them like re-naming and unzipping, and other prcedures. Such features would put Firefox way ahead of the competition. Example: Scrolling through a site where you need to download a bunch of documents. You could download them normally, or you could tag them to be downloaded. Once you'd tagge everything you needed, you start the tagged Downloading Applet and it downloads all the files, one by one to the folder you specified, re-naming them according to a scheme you choose.This would be a very handy feature, especially for people who use image sites, or who need to download dependencies for open source projects. Initially, you could tag links from the same page, but eventually it might be feasible to keep a cross-site tag list. This would also be useful for people on dial up connections who need to download many large files, as it would allow them to tage the downloads during the day, and then download them at night, when they are less likely to need to use the phone.

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