Downloads freezing in firefox

[Smith]

Why the hell does this keep happening. Im trying to download a 500mb file and it keeps freezing..then I gotta start over again.

This is the 3rd time!

[peat moss]

Never seen the problem myself what Download manager are you using ?
A google gives you this :

http://www.firefoxtutor.com/36/downloading-freezes-firefox/

[safa]

Maybe the server you are downloading from is busy or overloaded, what type of file are you tryin to download?

[killuminati96]

If you use an accelerator like Download Accelerator then you could resume your download everytime it dies on you.

[magister]

you can resume downloads from firefox if server supports resume

[yeahdude]

Get a download manager like Download Accelerator or FlashGet

[Smith]

Im not using a download manager? Should I be?

[peat moss]

Im not using a download manager? Should I be?


I'm not other than the Firefox tweak .

[Hahaiah]

If it downloads the same way with Ie or a manager, then it's not the browser, if it turns out to still be Firefox, you might have to rebuild your profile. I had to do that after upgrading to 2.0 and it solved all the problems I was having ...

[catalyst05]

U must use flashget.. it is best. if u are downloading from rapidshare (really shit site) u must use ie.

[grchl3]

I'm not sure if this is your problem but I recently had a problem with a download that would die in the middle. After hunting down and installing a download manager it solved my problem because the download manager would resume the download if something caused it to fail. I decided to go with a firefox addon download manager, downthemall (downthemall.net) and I was impressed with it. It works well plus its open source.