Whenever I download bigger files, my RAM fills up and the tab/download crashes. Is it possible to “fsync” downloads with Firefox (really Librewolf, but still) so that it goes directly into storage instead of RAM? Or to adjust the amount of memory used before it is dumped into storage?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Do you know if I’m able to authenticate logins with wget? As in, I’m actually downloading from a cloud service and I’m worried that it’ll give me a 401 Unauthorized.

    Once upon a time, Netscape Navigator stored cookies in a “cookies.txt” file. While Firefox doesn’t do so these days, Firefox has a “cookies.txt” addon that will let you export the cookies from your browser session in said format. You can use these if you require some sort of authentication that needs to be done interactively from the browser: $ wget --load-cookies cookies.txt <URL to download>.

    wget also natively supports authentication with a password, but it’s possible that whatever service you’re using requires interactive authentication in a browser, and for those, this is a workaround.