Reviews for DownThemAll!
DownThemAll! by Nils Maier
Review by DarkFalcon
Rated 2 out of 5
by DarkFalcon, 3 years agoI don't blame the developer, I blame the Mozilla Foundation. This addon is sadly pretty useless now, its just a nice wrapper for the build in single threaded Firefox downloader. I had used DTA for over 10 before Quantum came and and destroyed Firefox. The whole point of why I loved Firefox was because it allowed much better customisation than the alternative browser IE (initially) and then later Chrome. There was a long period where DTA was unavailable after Quantum was released, I had been sending people the XPI file (addon installer) to use with Waterfox, but was becoming less and less stable solution due to the age of the addon. Finally DTA came to "new" Firefox.. but other than better usability for bulk downloading, I don't see the point. Living at the very bottom of the world (NZ) single threaded downloads are horrifically slow, spamming download threads would get me speeds at almost linear growth with connections (e.g 1 thread got me 100kB/s, 10 threads got me 1MB/s). But now there is only a single thread, its useless to me :(
871 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by mehrdad550, 2 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sesarma, 6 days agoI used to run a much older version of this on Firefox 50-something. I preferred the interface since it would open up a separate window I could move to one side and keep an eye on downloads as they progressed. Now I have to keep on switching tabs. Maybe that's just a web extension thing, but I miss it.
My main complaint, like others, is there is no way to designate where to send downloads other than a sub folder in my Downloads folder. I use other extensions that download files provide a save to window so I am not clear why this one does not anymore. I still use the extension regularly, but not as readily as I used to unless I really have a lot of files to download at once.
There also used to be a feature where if I had a save file widow in Mac Finder that it had a selection to use DownThemAll to handle the downloading. That again meant I could monitor the download in a side window if it was something slow to download. - Rated 4 out of 5by fordcell, 17 days agoUsed to be better. Read the 1* reviews for details (even though I disagree with their 1* rating). Unfortunately, some of the step-backs are due to changes in browser developers permissions policies.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Glauber, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 20 days agoAbsolutely essential extension. Batch downloading is a huge time saver. I miss the option to remove duplicate links, which was available on the extinct XUL version. The option to view/edit the entries is also missing, so a broken link cannot be reviewed nor fixed.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Matteo Mazzanti, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SzymonL, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Filippide, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5780868, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18352492, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ChenXiaoming233, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by King, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by abemc, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18311769, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13651036, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nelan, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Gordon Dry, 3 months agoCannot download selection of multiple links anymore:
https://i.imgur.com/S7aLfkC.png
The resulting UI contains a white page:
https://i.imgur.com/2vLRgiL.png - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18289302, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17858937, 3 months agoDoesn't start let alone download anything. Without something starting or an icon appearing with my other browser addons it's unusable.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Krackenn, 3 months agoDestination folder option is missing. Without it it is impossible to organize. I remember I had it before, but now I see that they removed it.
That's why she left them 1 star. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18280538, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16134915, 4 months ago