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All the files that I try to download hangs at the last few seconds, no error appears, just doesn't continue with download

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I have tried downloading several files... Flash player, applications, songs, videos..etc... But all of them hangs at the last minute...I mean the download just doesn't continue... A few seconds remaining....6.7 of 6.8MB and it never continues..tried to wait for it to continue half of the day but didn't work...help!

I have tried downloading several files... Flash player, applications, songs, videos..etc... But all of them hangs at the last minute...I mean the download just doesn't continue... A few seconds remaining....6.7 of 6.8MB and it never continues..tried to wait for it to continue half of the day but didn't work...help!

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Could you try turning off the scanWhenDone setting? Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the filter box, type or paste scan and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to toggle its value from true to false.

What this does: Normally Firefox submits the file to your AV software for an on-demand scan. Toggling this setting turns that off. It also prevents Firefox from adding a notation to the file that the source of the file was the internet. That may change how Windows treats the file. You should ensure that your real-time AV scanning is turned on when you have this feature turned off.

Does that make any difference?

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whever the download file get stop or do not again downloading you can tyr some extra plugin whch provided by mozilla and am also having this problem whenver am try to download files from particuler url like [link(s) removed by Moderator] but now the problem is solve thanx to mozilla support. or you can read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files

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@ jscher2000 thanks for the tip, I tried it but still doesn't work. :(