#3551 NORM First D: closing Browse activity silently kills downloads-in-progress

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#3551: closing Browse activity silently kills downloads-in-progress
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  Reporter:  danw         |       Owner:  marco                 
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  web browser  |     Version:                        
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:2 tomeu]:
 > What about closing the window but let the process go on until the
 download is finished?

 This has lots of interesting issues.

 Does the browser still occupy space in the activity ring? If so, can you
 switch to it? If not, does this hide the memory consumption?

 Does refusing-to-die browser get killed by Sugar or Bitfrost? If not,
 isn't that a bug?

 IMHO, "it's not easy to tell for sure when there's a download still in
 progress" is the problem. Background web downloads are probably not an
 easy concept, and probably not very useful to the target audience.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3551#comment:4>
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