Reviews for WX Download Status Bar
WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley
Review by Firefox user 13594392
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 13594392, 7 years agoGreat job and a lifesaver! Not to belabor suggestions others have made, but here are my top 3 requests:
1) Make bar thinner in a manner similar to the old Download Status Bar extension by only displaying a single line of text and using tooltips to offload supplemental info. While download is in progress show a broken file icon, download speed, time remaining, and percent complete (or have option for user to choose 3 datums to display). Notice that filename doesn't display during download. When download completes, just display the file icon + name. All other data (file size, location, etc) can be displayed in tooltip.
2) Auto-clear (or have option to do so) when choosing Show in Explorer. Once I have gone to the file and started to work with it, I no longer need it in the status bar and having to explicitly clear it is just wasted mouse clicks.
3) See about injecting the status bar on all tabs. I keep dozens of tabs open at any one time and cannot keep track of which downloads are where.
Five stars if you manage to implement these!
1) Make bar thinner in a manner similar to the old Download Status Bar extension by only displaying a single line of text and using tooltips to offload supplemental info. While download is in progress show a broken file icon, download speed, time remaining, and percent complete (or have option for user to choose 3 datums to display). Notice that filename doesn't display during download. When download completes, just display the file icon + name. All other data (file size, location, etc) can be displayed in tooltip.
2) Auto-clear (or have option to do so) when choosing Show in Explorer. Once I have gone to the file and started to work with it, I no longer need it in the status bar and having to explicitly clear it is just wasted mouse clicks.
3) See about injecting the status bar on all tabs. I keep dozens of tabs open at any one time and cannot keep track of which downloads are where.
Five stars if you manage to implement these!
192 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sopor, 18 days agoIt seems that every Download status bar extension is out-of-date. Sad that they all are broken in different ways. 😥
- Rated 1 out of 5by Iantuition, 6 months agoNearly useless - having to first double-click the download in the status bar to open the download, then click "open download" in ANOTHER pop-up window (which often doesn't even come into focus, so the user has to find it) is more time consuming than simply opening the download window and opening the file from there. Uninstalled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rob, 7 months agoHow to stop it from opening a window to confirm I want to open a download please for the love of god this is so annoying.
- Rated 1 out of 5by rado84, 9 months agoDoesn't work at all, totally useless! The "status bar" won't even show up when a download starts.
- Rated 1 out of 5by XXVII, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sizemic-HUGE!, a year agoExcellent plugin. And love the latest (Mar 31, 2024) customization features! Amazing.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Herman Blume, a year agoIt's good, and it's really, really close to being perfect. Just wish there was an option to click the downloaded file and automatically open it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17855952, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cam, 2 years agoOf the few download statusbar addons, this is the "best" one, but it's still obnoxious how double-clicking the download opens a separate "open file" window instead of just, you know... opening the file?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Diego, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Drafer, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Krona, 3 years agoI wished it worked like Chrome and, sometimes, it's impossible to close the bar without restarting Firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Goldi, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Iren, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eli, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bandhi, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Dorraj, 4 years agoIt is WAY more useful than the built in Firefox download manager, but I wish I could click it to open and I wish you could queue to open files when done downloading. Also the clear button being on the left is odd to me.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15414620, 4 years agoDoesn't work. You cannot open anything from the statusbar
- Rated 4 out of 5by Umpahpah, 4 years agoUseful tool, perhaps some design is needed (too large when page size is change, but overall qute good
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 11050938, 4 years agoYep. It needs single-click opening -- better yet, an "open when done" function. And a smaller footprint, at least as an option.