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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 8a55928..d6ce327 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -556,6 +556,21 @@ from a page. If even that is unavailable, a download under 512 MB is collected i memory and handed over; a larger one asks where to put it, because a tab does not survive a multi-gigabyte blob. +**What has been exercised**, as of 2026-08-15, so the next person knows which of +this is measured and which is designed: + +| Path | Browser | State | +|---|---|---| +| Streamed into a granted folder | Chrome | works | +| Streamed by the service worker | Firefox | works — 180 MB, written to disk | +| Collected in memory (no folder, no worker) | any | works, bounded at 512 MB | +| Save As for a download over 512 MB | Chrome | works | +| Multi-gigabyte download, any path | — | designed for, not yet measured | + +The 180 MB run is the one that matters most, because the service worker is the +only way Firefox writes a download to disk rather than building it in a tab. It +has not been tried at the scale it exists for. + A finished download offers **Open** in the transfers widget when it went into a folder you granted: the file is handed to a new tab and the browser decides what to do with it. That is the whole of what a web page can do here — it cannot start |