Re: [Tails-ux] Porting DAVE to Web Extensions

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Author: intrigeri
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To: Tails user experience & user interface design
Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] Porting DAVE to Web Extensions
sajolida:
> Another benefit from having the download handled by the extension is the
> nice way to pause and resume the download, even across mirrors. This is
> especially useful since it's a huge download. For example, on the Tor
> Browser shipped in Tails 3.0~rc1 I couldn't find a way of doing this
> from the native download interface of Firefox. I don't know the
> situation with Firefox (and not Tor Browser) or with Chrome and I should
> check.


> But if we could rely on the native browser interface to pause and resume
> the download, then I wouldn't mind removing it from the extension.


> Anybody else knows how pausing and resuming work in Firefox and Chrome?


I'd be happy to follow a testing procedure and report back.
Should I test pausing/resuming with the native UI a download started
with, or without, DAVE?

Other than this, I lack the skills to answer the few other specific
questions you're asking.

Thanks for sharing your thought process!

Cheers,
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intrigeri