It seems like Firefox has this frustrating misfeature where, when drawing a "loading…" bar, it wants the loading bar to always be in at least a *little* bit of motion, which in the case where a download begins and then immediately hangs is (1) misleading and (2) defeats the purpose of the bar, since the bar fills up to 98% and then stalls there, even though some relatively tiny portion of the file (possibly 0%) has loaded

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@mcc yeah... i remember when Internet Explorer always did that, when in reality the page whose link you clicked had not even received the request to respond to it, and all the bar ticking along was doing was representing how long until IE decided to declare a request-timeout

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