This is a very light and unobtrusive Firefox add-on no annoying sounds or animations; only minimal notifications. User-defined Automatic Folders where downloads can be automatically directed based on custom rules. User-defined Favorite Folders, easily accessible when the user writes a custom download directory. Flexible download management, the user can: a pause, resume, open downloaded files etc. Development is mainly done in Windows, with limited testing in Linux latest Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, I have no way to test the extension on MacOS! This extension is a generalist file downloader: for some very specific types it may be better to use other, more specialized extensions video downloaders, for example. The extension doesn't work in private browsing mode.
The user defined folders are only relative to default browser's download directory; this is a general web extensions security limitation. How to use this extension? Answer Say for example you have opened a web page with many pdf resources.
The most basic workflow it to open the extension popup via the browser toolbar icon and click there the Load page links button. This usually fills the resources list with all sort of links, not only the desired pdfs. So the next step is to filter this list, such that only desired pdfs stays here. Write pdf in the extensions text field. Now only pdf type resources show in the list. If the list is still too large you want only smaller subset you may continue the filtering process indicating some relevant terms in the next text filter field.
Finally, you check desired items individually or all at once and start immediate downloading using the corresponding button on right bottom corner. The downloading items are now visible in the downloads tab of the popup; you can manage this list in the usual manner pause, resume, open or remove individual items etc Question 2. How about other alternative workflows?
Answer The general idea of the extension is to collect links to the resources list with optional filtering and finally to add checked items to the download queue. The collecting stage has many variations: using the web page context-menu: you can right-click individual links from the web page or a larger selected text region using the special tabs dialog; here you can collect links from active tab all tabs right tabs left tabs and even decide if the collected links must be immediately downloaded or if the associated tabs must be finally closed.
The resource list has too many links and I find it difficult to recognize the wanted ones! To open a PDF file you downloaded in Firefox using another viewer:. To switch from using the built-in PDF viewer to another viewer:. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences.
Click the menu button and select Options Preferences. Click the menu button and select Settings. Through this add-on you can download media, picture, text, pdf, compressed files in the web-page. If you have any other file type, specify that extension and you can view, filter and download files as per your requirement! The downloaded files are saved in Firefox Download directory that is set in Firefox Preferences. License Free for general public use Feature Status Note: x.
Bug Flags:. This bug is publicly visible. Andre Klapper. YF Yang. Gingerbread Man. Flags: needinfo? Closed: 4 years ago. Attached file handlers. Daniel Veditz [:dveditz].
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