Downloads

[Prizm]

Some control over download speed would be much appreciated. Even if it's as simple as a Low/Medium/High Priority button for each download. Could even be implemented in the right-click menu for each download. That way we can actually browse when downloading a large file, and not have to use a download manager for such a simple function (like we've had to for years!).

btw, if you close Chrome, it doesn't stop your downloads. They keep going. At least in my experience.

[matches81]

a) For me, downloads that are currently running are put at the bottom of the tab I started them from. If I close that tab, the download stops, forcing me to leave that tab open. Not so good. This behaviour only changes as soon as I have the download tab open. In my opinion a download should only stop if I explicitly tell it to, or if an error occurs, of course.
b) The ability to initiate a download manually (i.e. by entering the URL of a file I want to download, something like "New download..." and letting the user enter the URL). Just ran into that problem: I know the URL of the downloadable version of a stream, but I can't start the download, because the codec plugin for that specific video format crashes as soon as I open the URL normally in a browser window/tab. I can't start a simple download manually either.
c) One thing that would be nice, too, is if I was able to restrict Chrome to use only a specified maximum speed for downloads / browsing / both. At work I yesterday ran into the issue that I was downloading the DirectX SDK and one of my co-workers came over complaining that I used all the bandwidth (really small company). Would be a nice feature.
d) Resuming downloads or restarting them from scratch if resuming didn't work out.

[DanOmega]

I dont know about you, but when i close teh browswer, (and by that i mean, no Chrome processes running) it cancels my download, obviously, and there is no way to restart it. without having to go back to the page where it was, and redo a new download. and i would really like for it to have an option, in the downloads tab, next to the "cancelled" download, to have a resume button.