#Downloads

A navigation whose answer is not a page to show (an attachment, an archive, an installer, a PDF, media…) becomes a download. The same connection goes on as the download: nothing is asked twice, so a POST or a one-time link works. The tab keeps the page it showed. The body is written to a temporary file next to the destination (name.ext.wrenpart), chunk by chunk on the background threads, and moved into place when it is complete.

#Images are shown, not downloaded

An image opened by itself (its address typed, or "Open image in new tab") is shown alone on a dark background, fitted to the window, and can be looked at closely:

#The button and its drop-down

Once a download has run in the session, a button with an arrow into a tray joins the toolbar, before the shield (browser.download.button: auto, always or never). While something downloads, a ring turns around the arrow and fills as the files arrive (a comet runs instead while a size is not announced); a dot says that something ended that has not been looked at. A download that begins opens the drop-down under the button by itself.

The drop-down lists the six latest downloads. A running one shows its name, how much of how much, the speed and the time left, and a progress bar: a gradient that eases toward the real figure, a gloss on its upper half and a light band travelling over it. The cross cancels it. A finished one opens its file when clicked; its folder icon shows it in the file manager. Show all opens the page; Open the folder opens the download folder.

#about:downloads (Ctrl+J)

The page lists every download, the running ones first, the others by day, newest first. A search box filters by name or address. A running row has a Cancel button and its percentage; a finished one has Open and Show in folder, and a menu (⋯, or a right click on the row):

• Open, Show in folder;
• Copy download link;
• Download again: the address is opened again in a new tab;
• Delete the file: the file is deleted (it does not go to the recycle bin); the row stays and says so;
• Remove from the list: the row goes, the file stays.

A failed or cancelled download offers Try again. Clear the list takes every finished download off the list; the files stay where they are.

The list survives a restart: the finished downloads are written to downloads.txt in the profile (state, times, size, address, path and name, one line each), up to browser.download.list_max of them. A file moved or deleted since shows "Deleted or moved". Nothing running is written.

#Preferences

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