download manager could use improvement,

[Sander van Loon <svloon xs4all nl>]

One of the things which I miss in Epiphany (and all other browsers which
I've tried, Internet Explorer and Firefox) is a good download manager.

1. The download manager doesn't support resuming an incomplete download
after restarting my PC.
2. I also noticed that when I shut down my PC with a download still
running, I don't get a warning that my file which is being downloaded
will be lost if I shut down.
3. Long file names in the download manager don't get shortened, which
makes a scroll bar appear so that I can't see the progress bar.
Screenshot here: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Evanlonen/epiphany_download.jpg
4. I'd like to have the possibility of limiting my download speed.
Sometimes I'm downloading huge files which take a long time to download.
The download will also consume all my downstream bandwith. I'm behind a
router with two other PC's, if my brother wants to play a game online
while I'm downloading with full speed for an hour or so, that's
impossible for him because I'm using all the bandwith then. This is
quite a serious problem for me and other people sharing internet
connections. Maybe for other people as well, it could be useful to limit
download speed so that you can still browse the web while downloading.
Maybe you could put such a seek bar, like the one in Totem, in the
download manager window as an easy way to control the percentage of
download bandwith which is used. I've searched Bugzilla for this issue,
and I've found this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117939
That feature request is one and a half year old however, so I wonder if
it still isn't possible?

I have some other requests as well. Please read:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327382 currently you have to
enter "epiphany -n %s" in Preferred Applications to get links to open in
new tabs instead of new windows. It seems to me like this is better
default behavior. Maybe this could be changed in Epiphany so we don't
have to use this obscure tweak with the command?

Last question, in my previous post to this mailing list -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2005-November/msg00021.html
- Reinout van Schouwen told me of this extension:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118618 Last comment on that
Bugzilla entry is from 4 November last year, has there been any progress
on that extension? Will it make it into epiphany-extensions someday?
Currently I'm using smart bookmarks and the deskbar applet to accomplish
quick searching, but those aren't ideal. This extension would make my
life a lot easier, so I hope it will be included.