Download Manager
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FYI, this request is internally under VB-29898 -
@cheve11e_191 Great! Thanks for the headup.
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Just add support for external download managers, which already supports all and more.
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As it is, but as I leave the browser in the background the Windows operating system, just like Chrome does, in the sidebar or better known as "try-ico" because I want to close all tabs and leave open in the corner together near the clock.
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Just upvoted! Necessary feature.
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Download manager with an option to define how many concurrent downloaded files to download.
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As a start, Vivaldi could just make the downloads panel accessible as a tab.
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A download manager similar to what SLIMJET browser has. They named is TURBO DOWNLOAD MANAGER which is builtin and works exact way of ADM or IDM.
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I really don't like how vivaldi://downloads looks like. it's very chrome
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@madiso it is accessible vivaldi://downloads but it's not official and not really practical.
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I could really do with being able to throttle the download bandwidth - I often want a large file downloaded, but don't want to consume the entire download bandwidth of the house while doing so.
Fairly common feature elsewhere.
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@gavinbrebner
Hi, where is such a feature in Firefox?
Do you up vote this request in first post including bandwidth allocation?Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I found that you can throttle Vivaldi for a while by using the dev tools - there's the option to throttle there, but you need to stay in the dev tools area. It would be good to surface this as a general option.
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@gavinbrebner
Hi, may be you create a new feature request, it seams independent to the download manager.Cheers, mib
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I was going to create a new request, but this seems under the scope of a download manager anyway, so I'll add it here...
Sometimes I find myself forgetting I had already downloaded a file and doing it again two or three other times. The fact that I'm terrible at managing the downloads folder doesn't help much either...
My request/suggestion is that if when downloading a file, that file is already present in the Downloads panel and if the actual physical file it points to hasn't been deleted yet then, instead of activating the Downloads panel and downloading the file again, it could simply activate the Downloads panel and point to the already existing downloaded file. The information of each file in the Downloads panel already contains useful information for this, like the URL the file was downloaded from (and maybe even the date of the file if you think that's important).
There might be a small warning (a tooltip, maybe) to let you know that this is a previously downloaded copy - in some cases the same URL corresponds to a file generated in runtime which may be different and you may actually want to download a new version of it.This would save bandwidth and avoid creating duplicate files in the file system. I think this would be particularly effective in a cell phone, where file management itself is not as advanced as in a desktop computer...
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It would be great to be able to use aria2 as the download handler for an optional download manager. It is a well-established way of downloading things much more quickly from the web for just this purpose and is totally open source. Very easy to use and works on multiple platforms.
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@Pesala I support this feature.
- Edit: While messing around in chromium repository (Vivaldi wasn't open source but Chromium based) I came across the feature and searched on the nets and I also found the following article, don't know if it helps:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/settings/throttling/
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/services/network/throttling
I am not an expert in coding but I know HTML, CSS, C++, C# and Java but I have no idea about JavaScript so I was hoping that I could somehow modify my client (I don't even know if it is a smart thing to do legally) so there was that, if devs could let me maybe I could do something Idk -If they ever see this message -
@Pesala @LonM
it is already there
F12>Gear(Settings)>Throttling
You can see it from the first link I posted above this comment, why does nobody know about this
It just needs to be added to the interface I guess. Hope It helped you too. Anyways I'll see you around. Take careForgot to mention how to work with it, we add a custom profile(also take note to not forget that you set a throttling rule for later), Lets say we have 2Mbit/s connection speed if we want to set a speed for 3/4 of the connection we have which would be 1.5MBit/s we convert this to kbit/s that is required for the input parameter 1500kbit/s (maybe exactly 1536 Idk just around that number is fine) will be the number. I have yet to try this but I will inform if it works properly without any incidents.It doesn't work for me but the reason for that might be because I didn't enable developer settings override or something, looking for the solution now.
Apparently it is only for HTTP connections and I think downloading is FTP protocols (not a networking expert) so there is that -
Found other in depth articles explaining throttling with dev tools and how to enable them (I am not an expert so we might need help on that) and also another page that shows comparisons with tests of various methods like lighthouse(?) including downloads. And it seems that also has an extension too. I will provide links:
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https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-devtools-network-throttling <main article
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https://www.debugbear.com/blog/devtools-local-overrides < lets you get dev-tools to work perhaps?
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https://www.debugbear.com/blog/network-throttling-methods < download comparison graphics
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lighthouse/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk < extension
It would be great if someone managed to find a workaround in the meantime and share with the rest of us the results, also help development close the gap too with the competition.
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@LoveFourSeasons This Future Request is marked "pipeline", which means that the Vivaldi team has it on the to du list, but when this feature will be released is not yet known.
