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- DownthemAll
by arunc 9y ago
- DownthemAll
- Viper007Bond 9y agoCurrently being rewritten.
- hinkley 9y agoA subset is currently being rewritten. Which is a surprise because he announced he wanted nothing more to do with Mozilla over this, last year. Wonder what caused the change of heart.
- blaenk 9y agoThis one surprises me the most, not the fact that DownThemAll itself isn't WebExtensions compatible, since that was known since last year [0], but that there is a huge gap in download management functionality. I'm not even asking for all of the functionality present in DownThemAll, I'd just like: * to be able to queue up multiple downloads without actually starting them, so I can start/resume them once I go AFK for example * auto-scan all links on the page and be able to filter them to add links to the download queue, e.g. to queue up all files matching a certain filter * rearrange the queue's order * persist the queue across browser sessions * pause any given download and be able to resume it across browser sessions Meanwhile the usual built-in download functionality nowadays appears to be pitifully bare-bones by comparison, only providing the ability to manually download individual files one by one with no semblance of a queue, nor a way to limit concurrent downloads to one (e.g. I'd rather have one finished and ready to use than 5 downloading slowly due to the connection being spread thin). For what it's worth, thankfully the author of DownThemAll is working on a WebExtensions version [1], which may also get released on Chrome and other WebExtensions-compatible browsers [2]. [0]: https://www.downthemall.net/re-downthemall-and-webextensions-or-why-why-i-am-done-with-mozilla/ https://www.downthemall.net/re-downthemall-and-webextensions... [1]: https://www.downthemall.net/delays/ https://www.downthemall.net/delays/ [2]: https://www.downthemall.net/progress/ https://www.downthemall.net/progress/