So, let's say you're downloading a large file in Chrome and it fails... what do you do?
Well, if you're at home or work or somewhere with a fast network, you probably just start the download again (there's no resume functionality).
But what if you're at a conference or coffee shop or somewhere without a fast internet connection. Starting the download from the beginning could cost you a significant amount of time.
Instead:
Open your downloads folder (e.g. ~/Downloads in OSX if you haven't changed the defaults)
Locate the file you were trying to download, it will have the extension .crdownload
Rename the file, removing the ".crdownload" extension (e.g. myfoo.zip.crdownload should be renamed to myfoo.zip)
Open a terminal window in the same directory
Use wget to resume the file (the -c flag will continue the download you're already started)
wget -c <url_of_the_file_you_were_downloading>
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