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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2016
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug



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Download progress bar should not show on all minimize taskbar buttons.

Project Member Reported by ekaramad@chromium.org, Mar 5 2016 
Version: 48.0.2564.116 (Official Build) m (32-bit)
OS: Windows 7

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open gmail and start a chat window.
2. Pop out the window by clicking on the arrow button on the top right.
3. Minimize the chat window and start downloading some file on chrome.

What is the expected output?
The download progress bar should only show on the tab/window with active download.

What do you see instead?
The progress bar shows on all chrome task bar buttons including the chat window which is unrelated to browsing.
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Comment 1 by asanka@chromium.org, Mar 7 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
In general, downloads aren't considered to be associated with any specific window (e.g. the download will continue even if the originating window is closed as long as the browser itself is still running). Hence the natural choice is to display ongoing download progress in all the task bar buttons for Chrome. Otherwise the download progress would have to jump from button to button.

I agree that the UI can be a bit confusing, but currently it's a symptom of concepts like downloads (which are global to a browsing session) not mapping well the task bar UI (which manages application windows rather than applications).
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