Reviews for Double-click Image Downloader
Double-click Image Downloader by Marnes
Review by ziess
Rated 3 out of 5
by ziess, 7 years agoProbably has some potential, but does not work on all sites. Take for example any album from www.muziekweb.nl : the hover button simply does not appear (both for thumbnails and full-size covers). One can use https://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/KJX0815/Iran-les-ma%C3%AEtres-de-la-musique-traditionnelle-vol-1 as a test.
UPDATE
Please stop blaming web-sites for deficiencies of your add-on. Those images are available through direct URLs and the web-site does not prevent you from downloading them. And yes, modern web-sites are dynamic and display content in various ways. This is reality.
UPDATE
Please stop blaming web-sites for deficiencies of your add-on. Those images are available through direct URLs and the web-site does not prevent you from downloading them. And yes, modern web-sites are dynamic and display content in various ways. This is reality.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoUnfortunately not all websites are the same, and some use all kinds of layout tricks that prevent addons like this from realistically working, or even specifically protect their images from copying tools. I feel like you're trying to paint this as a shortcoming or flaw, but that's a little unfair. Webdevs will always find ways to hinder tools like this, on.purpose or coincidentally. There is no addon that works perfectly for all.
Update: yes, of course any visible image is by definition available to download, the problem is with websites doing all kinds of weird-ass shit to satisfy their sometimes arbitrary layout decisions and completely violating web standards in the process, or just using complicated css nonsense that can completely throw tools like this off-track. My addon is able to work through most of those things, but you can't expect 1 generic little piece of code to be able to perfectly circumvent everything a human dev can come up with that makes its life harder. Write an algorithm yourself and submit it in a PR, Mr. Perfect, or be satisfied that it works 99% of the time.
Update: yes, of course any visible image is by definition available to download, the problem is with websites doing all kinds of weird-ass shit to satisfy their sometimes arbitrary layout decisions and completely violating web standards in the process, or just using complicated css nonsense that can completely throw tools like this off-track. My addon is able to work through most of those things, but you can't expect 1 generic little piece of code to be able to perfectly circumvent everything a human dev can come up with that makes its life harder. Write an algorithm yourself and submit it in a PR, Mr. Perfect, or be satisfied that it works 99% of the time.
183 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13323778, 4 days agoGreat addon, if it could support custom download location it would be 5 star.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gwarchdodwr Tir NaNog, 3 months agoProbably one of the most useful extensions to Firefox that I've ever downloaded. Thank you.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11900036, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bhargav Ram, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12759533, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Pedruzzi, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Poltava, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by yensama, 10 months ago
Developer response
posted a year agoAs mentioned many times before (I should add this to the FAQ part), it depends on the website, this observation is not global. Many servers provide filename extensions one way or another, but e.g. twitter doesn't in any way (because websites don't need to) and my addon can't just take a wild guess as it. There will be an extension if the extension is communicated by the server as per standards. What a blown-out-of-proportion thing to give a permanent 1 star for anyway, as if that's all there is to it and as if it's any addon's fault a server decides not to expose extensions. Stupid "reviews" - more like baseless whines - like this are why I'm done developing for the public anyway.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18347152, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14624091, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ProtonLover, a year agoOnly site this doesn't work on is pixiv is there a workaround at all if so? getting SERVER_FORBIDDEN
Developer response
posted 8 months agoSorry, they probably detect hotlinking (i.e. direct downloading) specifically to stop addons like this. Thank you for giving a reasonable rating to a functioning product, unlike all the petulant reviewers that go straight to 1 star for the silliest reasons as if it's a completely defective piece of junk. - Rated 5 out of 5by diego.ar, a year ago
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSome websites do things to stop addons like this from working, and I can't change that. But the addon definitely works on sites that don't take such countermeasures. I use it myself in the latest firefox, as do many other happy reviewers. Don't use reviews for misplaced and false bug reports, they belong in an email with proper information like which site you're trying to use it on. Simply writing "doesn't work" is an utter waste of everyone's time and blatantly wrong.- Rated 1 out of 5by ragernothingworks, 2 years agoIt just does not work, you can click all you like, it won't download on Firefox.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry but I'm using firefox and this addon myself, and it definitely works, as it does for other people too. There are some sites that do things that prevent addons like this from working (e.g. clickable overlays on images), you may be trying to use it on such a site. Fair enough it doesn't work then but that's no basis to say this addon never works. Please use reviews only for serious, well prepared review content. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17999994, 2 years agoamazing does exactly what it says the hover button works best for my use case!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chillsaw, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16803992, 2 years agoI like hover "Download Button" on images, it's exactly what I'm looking for.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoGlad you like it, I too used it more often than the titular feature actually - Rated 5 out of 5by JebDude, 2 years agoThis extension is great. A quick and easy "Download Button" on images is exactly what I was looking for.
I find that some sites really try to obfuscate their images. In that case I just have to analyze the src HTML to find the original link, open it, and then download.
But the quick-and-easy button is what I wanted. Thanks dev!Developer response
posted 8 months agoThank you for knowing what you're talking about before commenting and having realistic expectations unlike some people. - Rated 5 out of 5by RogCBrand, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kajjo, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by MIM, 2 years agoIt's a good extension, it downloads orginal size image with Double-click, but it downloads image with random name & without extension (.webp, .jpg, etc). The image that is hyper-link too, you can right-click on image to download it, what it needs is to download image with page title name & with extension (.webp, .jpg, etc).
Developer response
posted 8 months agoFilenames and extensions depend entirely on the hosting server. Renaming using a.o. the page title is implemented but not supported by firefox itself. Thank you for the reasonable rating, all things considered, unlike the way some people rate projects. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14044871, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Radu Bogoevici, 2 years ago