Chrome,s download manager rudimentary?

I just wonder why chrome has a poor download manager.

I am always impressed with the builtin download manager of Opera. I can resume any download any time, even days after, even if I close the browser and launch it again or restart my PC.

Now IE has included a very similar download manager too but in Chrome, the resume function often doesn,t work. Also if I close the browser, no way to resume the download.

Any ideas why they are not improving it or may be people just don,t need this feature. I do like such a feature as my DSL is not very fast.

 

As the Chromium developers put it (and I'm paraphrasing)

"We have a new guy on it and he's been busy with other priority projects."

And just FYI there is a new manager in the works and you can enable it in the about:Flags but it's broken.

 

The new New Downloads UI flag is quite funny, actually. I just tested it... From what I could see, it will only take away the messages and download info from the main browser window. You'll have to open chrome://downloads/ to see the downloads, and even allow the downloads in case it's a dangerous file type such as *.exe.

 

Yep, it's broken.

 

poor download manager, horrible spell-checker and you have to keep an eye on the user folder because Chrome can't clean up after itself.

otherwise, a bloody good browser.

 

Not sure what you mean here.

Chrome spellcheck is awful though.

 

it does not delete old update folders and other stuff.
i have to delete that stuff manually.

the Chrome folder in AppData/Local should not be any bigger than 200 megs after you've cleaned the history/cache/cookies etc and after you've ran CCleaner.
if yours is bigger that that there's bloating happening and it has left little 'turds' laying around.

it's a mess really.
i have enough problems cleaning my apartment without me having to clean up after Chrome...

 

Hm. Yeah, haven't noticed that.

 

That was awesome!

 

hahaha!

glad i was able to lighten up your day some.

 

Thank you!