Ability to set maximum download speed

Sorry, I forgot to add that I was talking about Abrowser lol!

Mozilla said no to this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298252

I too think it would be a good idea, to have such a feature, that is.

I agree this should be an option. Even if it was just an about:config option where you could set max.download.speed = 20 and that would limit you to 20 kilobytes per second and 0 would be unlimited.

I don't know how much time this would take to implement. Even though mozilla has marked the above bug as "won't fix" you may want to just vote on it anyways. The more popular it gets they may come back to it and change their mind.

A workaround is to use wget for large downloads, because you can tell wget to limit the max speed.

Maybe you could even use this browser addon http://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/launchy to make the workflow smoother.

Silly Mozilla!

There's also "cliget", https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/cliget , which generates curl or wget download commands when you click to download a file; you can configure it to insert, e.g., "--limit-rate 40k" (curl) or "--limit-rate=40k" (wget) in the generated command.

Those speeds are valid only for each download; you may want to plan things before, if you download two or more files at the same time.

Trickle is avaliable in Trisquel too

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.