Show download speeds in Safari When downloading files in Safari you can see your current downloads in View -&gt; Current Downloads or AltCommandL



If my memory serves me right, this window also showed the download speeds as well (this was in previous versions of Safari when it used to be a separate window). But I can not figure out how to bring up the downloads speeds.

My question: How can I see my current download speeds in Safari (version 6) without the use of any extensions of third party apps?
After reading this thread and with the reproducibility described here, I started to believe that this is a bug. In this thread OS X users complain that sometimes download speed is visible and sometimes not.
It was suggested to completely quit Safari, open terminal and execute:

rm ~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist


And launch Safari again. That did not work for me.

The following steps might show your download speed (80% change, your mileage may vary):


Start a download
Pause that download
Close the download window
Wait 5 seconds and open the download window
Resuming the download
(after closing the download window, you need to do this all over again)


Screenshot, showing visible download speed (OS X 10.8.5 and Safari 6.0.5):