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Slight Offtopic - why after so many years Chrome & Firefox have so poor support for resuming interrupted file downloads? In case of Firefox I am almost sure it was better in past. I have to use 'wget -c' or https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ for bigger filles.

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As I suspect you may already know, this is dependent on the server 1) indicating support for byte range requests and 2) correctly implementing it.

I don't think I have noticed Firefox getting worse at this over time, but I'm not downloading large files every day. Would you be willing to share where you're noticing this?

It depends on the server, which has to implement HTTP Ranges [0]. Servers like nginx and Apache 2 should suport it. I'm not certain about the whole Node.js and Go backends out there. I think the support in Firefox does not have changed.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...

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