Reviews for Download Star
Download Star by liebs
36 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by jd., 5 years agoPretty good and efficient.
As noted by r.koegel, file names containing spaces or "#" (and probably other characters, but these are the two I've come across) are downloaded with "%20" instead of each space, which is somewhat awkward.
If you use Unix, the following script may help you (it sure helped me):
for f in "$@"
do
g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/%20/ /g;s/%23/#/g'`
if [ "$f" != "$g" ]
then
mv "$f" "$g"
fi
done - Rated 4 out of 5by r.koegel, 6 years agoIt's about as good as it gets right now. My only issue is that it apparently can't auto rename %20 and other placeholders to the 'spaces' or other regular characters in filenames. So downloading a file such as "this file.zip" becomes "this%20file.zip"...which is annoying when downloading 1700 text files from a server.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14995552, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14683363, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SirnoChan, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5509918, 7 years agoGood idea, but when I download items like: https://s16254.cdn.ngenix.net/audio/download?id=1363089 i get file named download.html, which is the mp3-file with .html extention. When I rename it to download.mp3, I can playback it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ofer Davidi, 7 years agoSomething working to replace DownThemAll! :)
Still, GUI needs more clarity - Rated 4 out of 5by ivanm, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12658220, 7 years agoThe best Down Them All replacement I've found by far. Thank You. The naming mask however, absolutely sucks. Why am I having to input and remember syntax to apply a naming mask? Other than that, I'm quite satisfied.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13236401, 7 years agoWorks great, I would have given it 5 stars if UI was more intuitive, it took me some time to figure out how to use it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12300494, 7 years agoI do not know what's happening, but the extension is filtering all files as .jpg. Please fix this bug.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14179019, 7 years agoIt has been a very useful tool until recently. It won't filter for anything other than .jpg where it used to be a very convenient batch grabber of webm and gif, etc. Probably due to some Firefox updates. Would be nice if it could be brought back. Thank you devs!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alejandro24, 7 years agoIt works fine for batch downloads. The interface is clear and simple, but sometimes it doesn't load properly. Is a nice addon for satisfying some needs since DAT! is not working anymore.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13066429, 7 years agoThe latest update broke a feature I enjoyed from the previous one. Not using the ASCII characters when saving files. All images I have downloaded since the update have had %20 in place of spaces where it used a proper space previously.
Otherwise, it works fine, but I would like the option to disable thumbnail previews as well. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 11241492, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13712702, 7 years agoIt's a very helpful add-on, thanks.
One question: Version 2 requires as a new permission "Access your data for all websites". Why is that?
Edited: Answered in the add-on description. Overlooked it, sorry.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe answer is in the addon description, you read that didn't you?
Edit: the permission is now optional, and only enabled if you use scrape all tabs feature. - Rated 4 out of 5by criza, 7 years agoI agree with the previous reviewer, a batch function so you can add multiple urls would be great! Also, can one download text and images in one step? Thank you.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13823800, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Wrun, 7 years agoIt`s so good for me, easy to get all links what I need. But why I can`t change downloading folder?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoFirefox does not allow web extensions to save files outside of the default download folder. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13011485, 7 years agoFirstly I appreciate there being an effort to replace DtA since it's been left by the wayside until the creator can update it. This is an acceptible substitute. I appreciate being able to filter the availble links. Currently looking for the ability to throttle download speeds as well as queue list to squentially download one at a time.
- Rated 4 out of 5by aswicks, 7 years agoThis downloads into whatever directory you have defined as your default download directory in subdirectory DownloadStar. Works fine. But, when looking at downloads in Firefox and select 'Open Containing Folder' nothing happens. When I open a PDF and then examine Properties I can find the directory that way.
But, I would really, really like to have the option of selecting the download directory like the old version.
Thanks for this plugin. I have missed this ability. Please keep up the good work. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13847359, 7 years agoI found this app because I was looking for a DownloadThemAll replacement, since it is no longer supported by the "new" and "improved" Firefox. It works as described, and saved me 380 clicks! The one thing I would love to see improved is the filenaming. The link on the website says "AN293: Temperature Compensated Real Time Clock Reference Design Programmer's Guide", the filename when I hover over the link is "an293.zip". Which do you think I would rather have?
DownloadThemAll solved this by allowing me to pick naming conventions.
Great job, otherwise. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13054787, 7 years agoThe ability to select multiple with shift+click would really make a big difference for me.