It's a pity Firefox can't count

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Despite what some of my colleagues and friends tell me, I don't need to use Firefox for my daily surfing, neither at home or at the office. I'm still using IE, as it works the best for me.

Now, the only reasons I use Firefox are Flash-only web sites and some downloads. Flash is common in many "better" web sites, but I never liked those animations, and thus have disabled the Shockwave plug-in in my IE. Instead, I switch to Firefox when I need to see Flash content.

But today I wanted to see how the Download Manager in Firefox could cope with large downloads. I was downloading a DVD ISO image from an Finnish FTP site, when the screen started looking like this:

As you see, Firefox cannot count properly. Okay, it is the old 1.0.7 version, but I cannot help thinking about the assertion some people make that open-source leads to better code. Using 32 bit integers for file size calculatations in the 2000s. Hello...!