Reviews for Multithreaded Download Manager
Multithreaded Download Manager by jingyu9575
Review by Juanka Hula
Rated 5 out of 5
by Juanka Hula, 7 years agoEdit: Great to know; then this extension is better than what the description lead me to think.
Rating updated.
Great addon. Would be nice if you could fix the issue with the updating of the addon and the pausing before exiting. Maybe detect when user wants to exit firefox and say you have pending downloads would you like to pause/, remove the downloads or cancel closing firefox. If the update issue cannot be fixed then maybe alert the user via the extension when there is an update?
Rating updated.
Great addon. Would be nice if you could fix the issue with the updating of the addon and the pausing before exiting. Maybe detect when user wants to exit firefox and say you have pending downloads would you like to pause/, remove the downloads or cancel closing firefox. If the update issue cannot be fixed then maybe alert the user via the extension when there is an update?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoActually it is OK to ignore that suggestion. If it is updated or exited while downloading, only about 1 second's progress will be lost. The downloads will resume after the update or the next start of Firefox. This feature is less tested though (I often use this extension but only sometimes exit while downloading), so the suggestion is written.
Now (v0.3) its automatic update is configured to be delayed until browser restart. I do not know any method of detecting Firefox exit without interfering the tabs (limitation of Firefox 57 extension).
The description will be rephrased.
Now (v0.3) its automatic update is configured to be delayed until browser restart. I do not know any method of detecting Firefox exit without interfering the tabs (limitation of Firefox 57 extension).
The description will be rephrased.
347 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hishiryo, 13 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by chen lei, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kurt, a month agoIt works, but... there's no way to use custom download locations, because /Downloads (my default location on Firefox under Debian Linux always is chosen.
That's a bad habit, because very often I use custom storage locations like USB HD's and especially bigger downloads put a high load unnecessarily on my SSD, which otherwise could be re-assigned completely.
Furthermore this AddOn seems to be dead, as there was no update since 2 full years... and there are numerous open tickets visible.
To clarify: I will re-edit this review in _ a n y _ case (dead or alive) and will downgrade it in case of a dead project and no response, so that it becomes at least obvious, that one should consider to remove this more and more function-wise dying thing from Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by Grant, 2 months agoExcellent! It would be even better with an icon for the new Firefox sidebar :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Subtilt, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Amin, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13666789, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13202285, 9 months agoThis add-on supercharges Firefox's built-in download manager by enabling multi-threading support. With no additional software required and a robust set of options, this add-on is fantastic. Thanks to the developer!
- Rated 4 out of 5by turgut kalfaoglu, a year agoIt's good but fails for very large files, ie 20GB or more. After the download, firefox starts saving it, but it gets stuck halfway.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Matthew, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18290850, a year agoThis is a very good extension, it's very useful and can increase the download speed by a lot!
这是个非常好的拓展，它十分实用，可以让下载速度提升非常之多！
この拡張機能はとても便利で、ダウンロード速度を大幅に向上させることができる！ - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18289180, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18269807, a year agoA great extension - well thought out and functional! Very low CPU load - well done!
It's a pity that it asks about the location of the files at the end, instead of at the beginning of the download, but this limitation results from the limitations of Firefox itself, as I guess (removal of the "IDBMutableFile" functionality in Firefox version 75). - Rated 5 out of 5by Emre, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ADRIANOMOUS, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Light Mister, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ErtY, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bob Tao, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by COOLak, 2 years agoThe choice of download folder is a joke. It still downloads the file to the browser cache directory and then it just moves it to the user-selected folder. In other words, trash.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12695154, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Footmen, 2 years agoI think you should update your addon, it is getting a few bugs with newer Firefox, thanks.