[geeks] keeping track of downloads by firefox

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Mon Jul 27 17:42:16 CDT 2009


gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:31:08PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> You want bandwidth per local application, correct? What about monitoring 
>> a virtual NIC that is only used by firefox? Or a proxy that keeps track 
>> of bandwidth? Are you able to route traffic for firefox over a dedicated 
>> NIC, allowing your switch to track bandwidth?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I was hoping for some sort of add-on. I only want traffic (http and ftp)
> totals of files I download using the "save file as" or add-ons that
> do the same.


Aaaah.

Well, write an add-on?  :)



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