Downthemall download manager

Pause and resume your downloads DownThemAll can pause and restart downloads at any time, without losing data. And much more: In case a file already exists, you can choose whether your downloads have to be renamed, overwritten or aborted just by setting a default behavior. You can customize time-out interval, as well as the maximum number of simultaneous downloads. Customize notifications, choosing between Firefox sidebox alerts, alert boxes, or simply nothing at all.

If you want it, dTa can close the source tab when the download starts. You can choose to close dTa automatically when all downloads are completed.

In Firefox: New: Subfolder dropdown. See: bugzilla New and updates translations. Software similar to DownThemAll! Mozilla Firefox Improve your browsing experience with Mozilla's open-source and highly acclaimed Firefox. Verdict: While Download Star is a cool little addon that offers a lot of features, there are some missing like the ability to pause and resume downloads. There is no way to customize the addon so you cannot decide the number of parallel downloads the addon will handle.

You can only download from the active tab and not from all tabs open. Download Star Free Firefox. Video DownloadHelper is a very popular video downloader addon that supports a number of sites and formats. Apart from supporting a number of video formats, and images, the addon really shines in one particular area. If there is a video that the addon cannot download, it will allow you to capture the screen and create a video out of it on the fly. This means you can also record your browsing sessions which can come in real handy when you want to show someone how to do something.

There is an additional feature to highlight the position of the mouse. Some other features include the ability to convert and join videos. There are settings options where you can customize the appearance, addon behavior like concurrent downloads, file name and length, and conversion rules.

Honestly, it had more options and settings, over 30, than I knew what to do with. Verdict: Video DownloadHelper is a cool little addon that will download pretty much everything you want it to. During my test, it failed to grab all the images like Download Star but worked well with videos.

Plus, you can customize the heck out of it. Internet Download Manager is a standalone software that you will download and install on your computer. You will then have to install a Firefox browser add-on that will connect the two allowing you to transfer downloads from Firefox to IDM. Though expensive, IDM has become a favorite among those who are constantly finding themselves downloading one file or another. IDM is noticeably faster than most download managers without even affecting your regular surfing speeds.

Because it is a standalone piece of software, you can pause and resume downloads just like DownThemAll as the Firefox webExtension API has no effect on it. It can handle pretty much any file type and comes with a scheduler so you can begin downloading at a pre-defined date and time, and then it can shut down your computer too. Verdict: IDM is a paid software but the set of features justifies the pricing.

This is not only a great DownThemAll alternative but also better than it in a lot of ways. The developers update it every 6 weeks and it is known to be safe and secure. JDownloader is the perfect substitute for IDM. Please do NOT report any bugs and issues in the user review section , but file a bug report instead.

This was mozilla's decision, and there is nothing we can do about it. We are therefore limited to the tools the WebExtensions model provides to us, which sadly makes it impossible to provide some of the advanced features of DownThemAll! Version 3. Furthermore there are some bugs in Firefox that affect DownThemAll! However, we're still able to provide the advanced selection, queuing, file naming options of the old DownThemAll!

Beta versions are available from downthemall. We urge people willing to help out with testing to have a look. Please note that these preview versions on our homepage were NOT fully reviewed by mozilla yet. How are you enjoying DownThemAll!

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