Reviews for Multithreaded Download Manager
Multithreaded Download Manager by jingyu9575
Review by Firefox user 13645153
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 13645153, 7 years agotried your "MultiThreaded Download Manager" v0.7.1 on Windows 10 in Firefox (FF) v57.0.4 with ABP, NoScript, etc.
that version showing : "100%" downloaded, but progress bar remains as red-colored ! and %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\ folder has no downloaded file ! where is it saving by default ? !!! DOM / FF-Temp/Cache ?
after pressing the play button (shown next to filename), the file "Save as" window appears, but even after doing that, still NO file inside selected folder ! both HTTP & HTTPS based download fails to save into selected local folder.
EDIT: above problems are solved, after FF was restarted once :)
One more issue is : many secure website (for example: "https://www.example.com/") uses a common(multidomain) or primary/main/"www" or wildcard/* based SSL CERTIFICATE for all of their sub-domains. So when FF user has accepted such primary/multidomain/wildcard SSL-cert for their different subdomain (for example: "https://download.example.com/", "https://cdn.example.com/", ...) to view webpages and if FF user attempts to download file(s) from such HTTPS based subdomain, then files are not downloaded by this extension ! So this extension need to recognize those (multidomain/primary/wildcard) type of SSL-cert which is used by that subdomain (as user has already accepted that SSL-cert inside FF) or this extension need to prompt/ask FF-user to view+approve that SSL-cert (for that subdomain) to continue downloading process over encrypted HTTPS connection. The play-button which is shown next to file-name, can bring the "Save as" window, but cannot save file into selected folder !
EDIT: above problem still exists even after restarting FF once. And after restarting FF, now "Save as" window does not appear anymore for such downloads ! so such files are not downloaded !
that version showing : "100%" downloaded, but progress bar remains as red-colored ! and %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\ folder has no downloaded file ! where is it saving by default ? !!! DOM / FF-Temp/Cache ?
after pressing the play button (shown next to filename), the file "Save as" window appears, but even after doing that, still NO file inside selected folder ! both HTTP & HTTPS based download fails to save into selected local folder.
EDIT: above problems are solved, after FF was restarted once :)
One more issue is : many secure website (for example: "https://www.example.com/") uses a common(multidomain) or primary/main/"www" or wildcard/* based SSL CERTIFICATE for all of their sub-domains. So when FF user has accepted such primary/multidomain/wildcard SSL-cert for their different subdomain (for example: "https://download.example.com/", "https://cdn.example.com/", ...) to view webpages and if FF user attempts to download file(s) from such HTTPS based subdomain, then files are not downloaded by this extension ! So this extension need to recognize those (multidomain/primary/wildcard) type of SSL-cert which is used by that subdomain (as user has already accepted that SSL-cert inside FF) or this extension need to prompt/ask FF-user to view+approve that SSL-cert (for that subdomain) to continue downloading process over encrypted HTTPS connection. The play-button which is shown next to file-name, can bring the "Save as" window, but cannot save file into selected folder !
EDIT: above problem still exists even after restarting FF once. And after restarting FF, now "Save as" window does not appear anymore for such downloads ! so such files are not downloaded !
Developer response
posted 7 years agoNext time the item becomes red, please hover the mouse on the red cross icon, and report the error message shown. This may help me know the reason.
The cache directory is %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\***\storage\permanent\moz-extension+++***\idb\***.files\ . The extension should move the file out when the download is finished.
About the HTTPS problem: I may be able to workaround by prompting the user. However as far as I know, most HTTPS sites are trusted by the browser and do not need manual approval. If all HTTPS websites show the certificate prompt, there is a possibility that your ISP is actively monitoring your Internet connection.
The cache directory is %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\***\storage\permanent\moz-extension+++***\idb\***.files\ . The extension should move the file out when the download is finished.
About the HTTPS problem: I may be able to workaround by prompting the user. However as far as I know, most HTTPS sites are trusted by the browser and do not need manual approval. If all HTTPS websites show the certificate prompt, there is a possibility that your ISP is actively monitoring your Internet connection.
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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!
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- Rated 1 out of 5by COOLak, a year 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.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Footmen, a year agoI think you should update your addon, it is getting a few bugs with newer Firefox, thanks.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Zatrihan, 2 years agoFor some weeks now the extension stopped working for me.
It will only use 1 thread, despite being set to use more, and it will always stop with an error before completing the download.