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Massive download crashing firefox ( fedia.io )

I've got a couple hundred GB to download with Google Takeout, so selected the 50GB file sizes but unfortunately the browser crashes at ~46GB. It actually crashes the whole machine (MacOS) with activity monitor showing firefox "using" 46GB of memory....

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this_name OP ,

That's a neat trick, good call! I ended up using an extension called cliget which seems functional so far.

this_name OP ,

That's good for most websites, but it only takes the URL and sometimes websites are tricksy when you're trying to use CLI tools and figured I needed all the appropriate headers. I got an extension cliget which seems to have worked well enough. In the end I think this would have worked, but takeout gives you limited attempts to download a file before it cuts you off entirely and wanted to be sure.

this_name OP ,

Yep, cliget was the answer. Honestly an extension I wish I knew about sooner.

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