Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

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This seems to interfere with resuming big downloads, as well as the general stability of big downloads. Setting network. http. response. timeout to 0 (or something very big) in about:config seems to make big downloads both resumable and at least a little more stable. However, the problem this fixes is firefox being unable to resume a resumable download on error. Firefox will happily ignore an existing . part without this option, and I do not understand why. Resumable downloads in firefox generally appear to be fairly unstable though.

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