Different browsers do this differently. Some show a little bar to indicate how much of the file you have downloaded as well as an estimate of how much longer you can expect to wait. Well, now the time ...

I just added a software upgrade to my Mac, and for the Nth time was suckered into one of my reluctant pastimes: staring at that progress bar. Yet it turns out that with a trick or two, that icon can ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for a web browser user interface asset that monitors download, rendering and output to display a more accurate representation of ...

The most popular browser on the planet keeps getting better with each update. A few months back, Google started testing a new, less intrusive download UI that sat within the top bar instead of eating ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

In Material 2, this UI element was very straightforward with a “boxier, neutral style.” They now feature rounded corners, with the biggest difference being a gap between the active indicator (what has ...

Three years ago, Valve launched its portable PC gaming handheld device, the Steam Deck, and shook up the industry in a big way. But while the Steam Deck is great and changed how people play games, it ...

Check if you see any incomplete or corrupted or failed downloads. The will be in the .crdownload file format. You will also see such a file in your Downloads folder ...

Why is it that whenever you have a progress bar pop up on your computer, the thing never runs at a steady speed? Why all the little stops and starts? This is the question YouTuber Tom Scott dives into ...

From the Dock, you can quickly check on a file's download progress from either the Launchpad or Downloads folder icon. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming ...