How to speed up “Save target as . * *” actions in Firefox? [context menu] [taskbar]

Q: For example, if I see an image I want to download, I right click for and choose Save Image As. It will often take more than 5 seconds for the download manager to appear. If the Download Manager is already visible in the , it still takes the same amount of time for her to show that something is downloaded (ie it is like a mini-freeze the browser) that brings me to one 0.

Another point. Why is there something in the cache must be re-downloaded (the progress bar goes from 0-100% in the download manager at a speed of more than a meg per second)? I can understand that the file transfer from the cache to the directory, but there seems no default in IE and Opera are.


Re:yea that download manager is buggy. removing stuff from it wihtout using the clean button is also dog slow

Re:suggested in #firefox on irc.mozilla.org: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=3091

Re:I disabled the download manager and all works well.

Fvcking download manager.


Re:Originally posted by: guy
Just drag the image to your desktop…Takes virtually no time and the download box should not show up.
This requires me to contract the browser window?

Re:Originally posted by: guy
Just drag the image to your desktop…Takes virtually no time and the download box should not show up.

Ha! I didn't know that was possible. I just tried it with your penguin avatar and works great. Nifty trick. :thumbsup:


Re:Just drag the image to your desktop…Takes virtually no time and the download box should not show up.

Re:Did it once more and it went up to 99%.

When idling, it takes between 0-2%.


Re:Athlon XP 1800+
512MB PC2100

WinXP SP1

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foobar2000

I loaded up Task Manager to observe the resource usage of my browser when I tried saving an image. The piece of sh1t shoots up to 95% CPU utilization for some god damned reason. No virus scanners loaded.


Re:What kind of system do you run? What background apps? I hjave no delay when saving images, I usually don't even see the download window pop up cuz it goes so fast…

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