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Firefox downloads won't go past 1.4MB/s from any site, while chrome downloads 4MB/s+ (Same file of course)

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Hi, I am having download issues with Firefox. For a long time now it's download speed has been limited to 1.4MB/s! I've been using http://speed.hetzner.de for testing, and some others. Chrome reaches more than 4MB/s. However, if I run a speed test on speedtest.net, It shows my actual speed, approximately 80Mbps. (It's actually 100mbps)

Hi, I am having download issues with Firefox. For a long time now it's download speed has been limited to 1.4MB/s! I've been using http://speed.hetzner.de for testing, and some others. Chrome reaches more than 4MB/s. However, if I run a speed test on speedtest.net, It shows my actual speed, approximately 80Mbps. (It's actually 100mbps)

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Speedtest and downloading from sites are not equal and shouldn't use to make comparisons. So unless others can get a sample links of the problems to test this will be hard to know if server or ISP issues or something else.

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This download manager works separately from the browser. The browser tells it what to download, and off it goes.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org It is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac.