Multithreaded Download Manager by jingyu9575

4.5 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 14073724

by Firefox user 14073724, 6 years ago

Great addon. What I would like to have changed is the moment a file is selected for download to have it immediately pop-up a windows to enter the download location instead of having a window pop-up when the download itself has finished. As I use many different download locations and simultaneous downloads it is hard to keep track if the windows pop-up after the download.

One more thing. When a post-download location window is displayed and the folder does not exist yet I create that particular folder withing that pop-up window. After I click Save a second window pops-up in which I need to select the folder i just created. Can this be done in one go.

I hope the above two can be combined as was the option with DTA where DTA created the folder and saved the files immediately in that folder.

Developer response

posted 6 years ago

This is a limitation of the Firefox 57+ extension system. Firefox does not allow extensions to save files to arbitrary locations, and this extension workarounds it by launching the built-in download manager, with the fully downloaded file. Before the task finishes, there is no complete file to give to the built-in download manager, so this workaround cannot be used and there is no way to prompt for the location.

If the location window always pop-ups twice, your browser may be affected by disabling "out of process extensions". See the wiki for details: https://github.com/jingyu9575/multithreaded-download-manager/wiki/Problems-with-disabling-the-feature-%22out-of-process-extensions%22