Reviews for WX Download Status Bar
WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley
Review by owcraftsman
Rated 4 out of 5
by owcraftsman, 9 years agoFirst and foremost, thanks so much for developing this extension. It’s a fantastic beginning, My interest here is to request feature enhancements to make it even better and more like the legacy extension it’s replacing.
Feature Request
#1 SHA1 & MD5 calculations
Fortunately there is this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/calculate-md5-sha1-hash-che-1/ but the extra steps involved is quite time consuming so please please please bring this back. I put this #1 because it is essential integral part for any download manager.
However, it used to be incorporated into the download status bar of legacy browser. When hovering over a download when complete MD5 hash calculation was displayed. I’m very hopeful it can be incorporated again
#2 Persistent Status Bar
In the legacy extension the bar was persistent at the bottom of the open browser window and not tied to certain tabs. Please make it so if possible
#3 Dynamic resizing of concurrent downloads
I’ve had up to 25 downloads of diverse types (.exe .jpg etc.) all remaining in a single height one row linear fashion. This may be achievable with unticking the show text option in your extension dialog, but I haven’t tried it yet.
#4 Thumbnail view
I download images a lot, so I like to be able to hover over and view a thumbnail image for expedience please bring this back.
#5 Scan for virus dialog
Indispensable we really need this as it was in the legacy extension
#6 Double Click run or open file
Double click currently opens containing folder it should run exe or open image as it did with the legacy extension
#7 Play Sound when download complete
I loved that feature and wish you could bring it back maybe toggle on and off through settings dialog be nice if we could choose wav file but not necessary.
Feature Request
#1 SHA1 & MD5 calculations
Fortunately there is this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/calculate-md5-sha1-hash-che-1/ but the extra steps involved is quite time consuming so please please please bring this back. I put this #1 because it is essential integral part for any download manager.
However, it used to be incorporated into the download status bar of legacy browser. When hovering over a download when complete MD5 hash calculation was displayed. I’m very hopeful it can be incorporated again
#2 Persistent Status Bar
In the legacy extension the bar was persistent at the bottom of the open browser window and not tied to certain tabs. Please make it so if possible
#3 Dynamic resizing of concurrent downloads
I’ve had up to 25 downloads of diverse types (.exe .jpg etc.) all remaining in a single height one row linear fashion. This may be achievable with unticking the show text option in your extension dialog, but I haven’t tried it yet.
#4 Thumbnail view
I download images a lot, so I like to be able to hover over and view a thumbnail image for expedience please bring this back.
#5 Scan for virus dialog
Indispensable we really need this as it was in the legacy extension
#6 Double Click run or open file
Double click currently opens containing folder it should run exe or open image as it did with the legacy extension
#7 Play Sound when download complete
I loved that feature and wish you could bring it back maybe toggle on and off through settings dialog be nice if we could choose wav file but not necessary.
Developer response
posted 9 years ago#1 I would need to read the file from the disk which I don't think is possible without the user selecting it using a file upload or drag and drop.
#2 This is kind of possible, the bar is per tab because it is injected into the html of the page, but I could make it always show for each tab.
#3 I could make everything show in one line no matter how many downloads you have, I'll probably add an option to make it do that.
#4 This is probably possible
#5 I don't think this is possible, but if I can figure out how to do it I will.
#6 This is unfortunately not possible, I would have to open another window and then you have have to click again to open the file, which I will probably do eventually. Kinda like sites that show a confirmation page when you click a link to a third party site.
#7 Playing a sound should be possible, not sure about a custom sound though, I'll have to look into that.
#2 This is kind of possible, the bar is per tab because it is injected into the html of the page, but I could make it always show for each tab.
#3 I could make everything show in one line no matter how many downloads you have, I'll probably add an option to make it do that.
#4 This is probably possible
#5 I don't think this is possible, but if I can figure out how to do it I will.
#6 This is unfortunately not possible, I would have to open another window and then you have have to click again to open the file, which I will probably do eventually. Kinda like sites that show a confirmation page when you click a link to a third party site.
#7 Playing a sound should be possible, not sure about a custom sound though, I'll have to look into that.
192 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sunny, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sopor, a year 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, 2 years 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, 2 years 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, 2 years 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Onyx, 2 years agoExcellent plugin. And love the latest (Mar 31, 2024) customization features! Amazing.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Herman Blume, 3 years 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, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cam, 3 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, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Drafer, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Miyako Jones, 4 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, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Iren, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eli, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bandhi, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Dorraj, 5 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 4 out of 5by Umpahpah, 6 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, 6 years agoYep. It needs single-click opening -- better yet, an "open when done" function. And a smaller footprint, at least as an option.