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downloading failed again and again when retry

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kansihk
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i m downloading a 8.9gb file. my file stopped downloading at 7.6gb. it certainly stopped at some speed and after sometime failed. after retrying downloading, same problem is occurring again and again

i m downloading a 8.9gb file. my file stopped downloading at 7.6gb. it certainly stopped at some speed and after sometime failed. after retrying downloading, same problem is occurring again and again

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cor-el
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Did you make sure that there is enough free space on the hard drive, at least twice the file count on the system drive (temp folder; %TMP%)?

FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac Options) key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?