I just did a 9MB FTP download, and its estimate of the time remaining was pretty poor -- it said 25 seconds were left just before it finished.

Confirming. I noticed this yesterday - it doesn't appear to take into account the time taken to select the download location, when mozilla is still downloading anyway. I waited 10 seconds from the time the dialog came up to presing OK, and at the end of the download I was told that I had 8 seconds remaining. I tried anoth file, waited 30 seconds before pressing OK, and at the end I was told that I had 35 seconds to go. Since it was only counting down in lots of 5 seconds, those are quite accurate except for the offset. downloadProgress.js probably shouldn't be setting the start time to the current time in onProgress. The %age bar was accurate, but the elapsed time was incorrect (it started from 00:00, and it shouldn't have, because the downloading started immediately. That was on an HTTP download - changing componant.

-> XPApps: GUI Features - "Problems with the dialogs associated with downloading/saving files."

bill or mscott, does this belong to you? sounds like a recent regression.

this belongs to me.

I fixed this along with something else. Adding appropriate triage keywords.

this is now fixed. when you first see the progress dialog the Elasped time field now counts the time we were downloading while the Open/Save dialog was open.

*** Bug 69037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

vrfy fixed --ie, the Elapsed Time does take into account the time while the Downloading and Save file picker dialogs were displayed [ie, includes initial background downloading time]: linux comm 2001.05.02.08 mac comm 2001.05.02.09 winnt moz 2001.05.02.12

Okay, I'm seeing this again. Actually, the numbers are strange, more like bug 69307 with figures like "0-13:0-11" (but that was marked as a dupe of this). It doesn't help that the file size has been reported as smaller than it really is. I'm downloading a 110 meg file, but mozilla thinks it's only 41 megs. Don't know if that's a cause or a symptom.