Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
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What happened
For whatever reason, Firefox 28 and newer (i.e. every modern version after like 2014 ) ships with network.http.response.timeout set to 300 seconds. This seems to interfere with resuming big downloads, as well as the general stability of big downloads.
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Why it's spreading
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Community
- Making big downloads resumable in FirefoxHacker News