Reviews for WX Download Status Bar
WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley
Review by Firefox user 6001196
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 6001196, 7 years agoThe best replacement for "Download Manager (S3)" that I've found so far, first of all I'd like to thank the developer for his/her hard work doing this for free for all of us to enjoy! :)
It does need some polishing, so if you could consider my suggestions I would appreciate it:
1) As many have said, the bar is too thick right now. It gets even thicker when downloading many files at once. Also, it changes size when you zoom in our out in a tab. And when you change to another tab, the bar either disappears or changes size according to the zoom level of each tab.
Please fix this making the bar size smaller, not dependent on each tab's size, and visible in all tabs/browser.
2) I'd also like if you could add some more info, like file icons, download speed, percentage... And that you could choose what info to show.
3) Add an option to "retry" when a download fails.
4) Add auto-clear option.
5) Add option to change color. Maybe even to the Firefox theme you are using.
6) Sometimes a download does not appear on the download bar for some reason (but it does appear on Firefox download history). Looks like a bug.
It does need some polishing, so if you could consider my suggestions I would appreciate it:
1) As many have said, the bar is too thick right now. It gets even thicker when downloading many files at once. Also, it changes size when you zoom in our out in a tab. And when you change to another tab, the bar either disappears or changes size according to the zoom level of each tab.
Please fix this making the bar size smaller, not dependent on each tab's size, and visible in all tabs/browser.
2) I'd also like if you could add some more info, like file icons, download speed, percentage... And that you could choose what info to show.
3) Add an option to "retry" when a download fails.
4) Add auto-clear option.
5) Add option to change color. Maybe even to the Firefox theme you are using.
6) Sometimes a download does not appear on the download bar for some reason (but it does appear on Firefox download history). Looks like a bug.
Developer response
posted 7 years ago1) There is a beta version with a smaller bar. Fixing the zoom issue is not possible until Mozilla adds a toolbar API.
2) Download speed is in the beta, other stuff is in the tooltip but could be added to the bar in the future.
3) Might be possible, I'll have to look at the API
4) There is already an option to auto clear downloads after a certain amount of time.
5) I'll probably add more themes, and customization in the future
6) If seen this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it consistently to fix it, I'm not sure if it is a bug in the addon or Firefox.
2) Download speed is in the beta, other stuff is in the tooltip but could be added to the bar in the future.
3) Might be possible, I'll have to look at the API
4) There is already an option to auto clear downloads after a certain amount of time.
5) I'll probably add more themes, and customization in the future
6) If seen this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it consistently to fix it, I'm not sure if it is a bug in the addon or Firefox.