I found this app because I was looking for a DownloadThemAll replacement, since it is no longer supported by the "new" and "improved" Firefox. It works as described, and saved me 380 clicks! The one thing I would love to see improved is the filenaming. The link on the website says "AN293: Temperature Compensated Real Time Clock Reference Design Programmer's Guide", the filename when I hover over the link is "an293.zip". Which do you think I would rather have?

DownloadThemAll solved this by allowing me to pick naming conventions.

Great job, otherwise.

Could you make the detection not sensible to the case of the extension letters, please ? For exemple currently it detects correctly the .pdf files but not the .PDF files.

Another suggestion, less urgent, would be also to be able to reproduce the tree of the subdictories as did DownThemAll.

The ability to select multiple with shift+click would really make a big difference for me.

On FF 59, the feature to capture links works fine, but the final feature to add any item(s) in download queue not work.

Me gusta que se puede descargar rápidamente, y usando filtros, múltiples archivos. Es una excelente alternativa a DownThemAll. El complemento funcionó como esperaba. Es útil y fácil de usar para mí. Un problema para mí es no he podido ampliar la ventana o abrir en otra pestaña, porque cuando los URL tienen muchos caracteres no se llega a ver completamente el nombre. Sugiero utilizar este complemento para descargar múltiple links.

I have only used it a few times where there were a few PDFs on the web page and it worked without any problem. Another time I used it to download a gif image from giphy.com. So far I am happy with it. I hope to see it further developed in the future to fill the gap of a good alternative to downthemall.

Good alternative to DownThemAll

Tried your "Download Star" v1.0.1, on Windows 10, in Firefox (FF) v57.0.4 with ABP, NoScript, etc.

it could not download Files, even after selecting a file from shown list of files on extension's pop-down dialog box !
EDIT: when FF was restarted once, then downloading began to work.

Please add option/feature to EDIT the URL. Currently there is no option to edit the URL.

Some websites do support HTTPS based file download, but they show HTTP based download url on their HTTPS based site !

And, some websites (for example: "www.example.com") show/share their downloadable files (for example: "http://sourceforge.com/projects/ProjName/filename", "http://download.example.com/filename", ...) as HTTP url, located on another/3rd-party(3P)/subdomain based website(s). And those 3P-websites/subdomains may actually support HTTPS based encrypted connection for securely downloading files, (for example: "https://sourceforge.com/projects/ProjName/filename", "https://download.example.com/filename", ...).

So in those/such case(s), we NEED TO EDIT/CHANGE THE (HTTP) URL by little bit into (HTTPS based url).

Please also make sure this works : when a website's subdomain (for example: "https://download.example.com", "https://cdn.example.com", ...) based webpage is actually using a multi-domain SSL-cert or wildcard SSL-cert or it's primary-domain's (www.example.com) SSL-cert, then such SSL-cert needs to be accepted/approved by user, for encrypted file download from that subdomain.

Some websites using self-signed SSL-cert based (or DNSSEC-signed TLSA/DANE based) file download, and these type of file downloading need to be supported as well.

Please also set the downloaded file's (creation+MODIFIED) DATE to same-date as it is in download/source website's server, Or please show an option for selecting that function. Currently its not saving the source server's correct file modified-date.

Thanks in advance.

The UI sometimes glitches. Sometimes I see what seems to be unlocalized text in {{}} - Brackets.

Clicking on the blue button next to the path starts the download, and does not open a file selection dialog, as i would expect.

Otherwise ok,

Works fine and fast with PDF's
Some learning: that the download folder path needs to be a sub-folder of Dowlnload Star folder

Question to developer: how do I get it to download more than 30 links on a page? This seems to be an internal limit

Awesome. Just needs a couple features like ID3/4 naming and 'max consecutive downloads' option, but it's "Experimental" so whatever.

Works fine for me. What I had missed most of DTA was the bulk download function for links which I found in Download Star. Thank you for your effort in programming an alternative add on.

First I had problems with actually starting the download (mentioned by many users before). Here is what I did to make it happen:

Give a full path (e.g. "C:\Temp\01\") in the destination field did not work (regardless of trailing \ or not). Take the default download destination specified in Firefox' preferences as given! Even if you set firefox' preferences to "ask" Download Star will refer to what was previously set as default. Any phrase typed into the destination field will create a seperate subfolder where the files are stored, leave it blank does not seem to work.

Firefox 57.0.3 (64-Bit), Download Star 1.0.1

I was pretty excited about this when someone mentioned it might be a replacement for the sorely missed DownThemAll extension. But it's very rudimentary: It simply shows a list of available files, which you can filter by type, then select to download. But sadly, doesn't have the ability to split large downloads into multiple segments—the feature I found most useful about DTA. I actually tried it on a couple of files but couldn't get it to work. I selected the files, pasted a folder's path into the path box, and clicked Download. Nothing happened—no download dialog box, no error message. But I'm giving it 2 stars anyway because the author's obviously trying to make something of value to share with everyone.

Fantastic.

Отличное расширение для снятия изображений. Открывает и закачивает в полный размер. Пользуйтесь им, так, как можно сразу снять с десяток изображений. 21.01.2020. 18:00. Спасибо Вам большое за исправление, уже всё работает!

This extension works absolutely fine in Firefox 57+.
Download Star is amazing and will continue to get better.

Don't be put off by any negative reviews - yes it's a work in progress but it's functional as is.

For those having "issues" with downloads not starting, I noticed that on Windows if you do not have a trailing slash in your path, Download Star won't begin. Not sure if it's a Windows quirk or an extension issue, but it's not a big deal to workaround.

However, you can create your own path or use the default path as long as you make sure wherever you choose to save your downloads it has a trailing slash.

i.e.

MyDownloadLocation won't work

MyDownloadLocation\ will work

5 stars, keep up the great work!

It's not as full-featured as DTA but it does the trick for me. Unlike other posters, it absolutely does download the full resolution images so I'm not sure if the other posters were using an older version or had their settings muddled up. My only complaint is that I wish the plugin gave some feedback indicating how far along the downloads have progressed. DTA had a progress bar for each image but even one big progress bar and an audio "chime" (like DTA) when it completes would do the trick. Or maybe the icon animates or something. I don't know. Just anything to show it's actually working. For the longest time I thought the plugin wasn't working but when I checked the destination folder, it was all there.

Just another stupid downloader. It's completely misses main features of DTA: full control of downloading process, naming, speed, order, etc. and one the most I needed - download by templates like /series[01:06]pic[1:99].jpg