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 ...

A progress meter looks like simple information: a bar filling, a ring closing, a number ticking upward. Yet it can shift your mood fast. This article explains why that happens, how progress cues steer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New changes are coming to Chrome's desktop browser thanks to its new UI update that moves the download bar from the bottom to a tray users may access via the window's address bar. Now, get ready to ...

This page contains instructions for viewing the progress of active downloads on your Nintendo Switch console. This way you can see approximately how much longer the download time should be before you ...