Broken downloads do not resume
Paused or broken downloads never resume automatically, and partial files cannot be picked back up.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
16 public reports · first reported 16 October 2018 · last reported 18 October 2025
What's going wrong
Users of this Firefox download add-on report that interrupted downloads do not restart on their own after a network drop, timeout, or crash.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 16 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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