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

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Author: sajolida
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To: Tails user experience & user interface design
Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] Porting DAVE to Web Extensions
intrigeri:
> 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?


The idea is to compare the pausing and resuming features of Firefox and
Chrome without DAVE. I already know how pausing and resuming work with DAVE.