Download Management is one of the more populated sections in the Firefox Add-ons gallery. And why not, as with unlimited bandwidths, we are all download junkies. I used to use a dedicated download manager. I still do, but I also have a partial likeness for download manager extensions made for the Firefox browser. The obvious plus is that I don’t have to launch a separate program for what is a browser activity.
So, let’s sift the best from the rest and look at the three best download managers for Firefox.
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DownThemAll
DownThemAll (dTA) is not only a download manager but also a download accelerator. It speeds up your download by four times by splitting files into segments. dTA is an advanced download manager which can download all the links or images contained in a webpage. The dTA window captures all downloadable links in a webpage and also gives you the option to selectively download them in a selection window. In most cases, you will opt for the latter, but dTA is really the tool for the instances when you want to download all links that are there on a webpage with a single click.
Here’s a list of the main features:
- dTA has two tabs – The Links tab containing all downloadable links found on the page and Pictures and Media tab listing all pictures and other media on the webpage. Flash videos are also listed.
- The dTaOneClick feature remembers your last download settings and thus saves you the bother of reconfiguring the extension every time.
- dTA has advanced filtering options that allow you to set file type extensions for inclusion for downloads.
- You can also auto-rename the downloaded files.
- Best of all you can pause and restart downloads, and also change their priority order.
FlashGot
FlashGet is one of the best external downloaders you can have. If you have this or any other, you can pair it with the Firefox add-on called FlashGot and control your downloads from within Firefox.
For instance:
- You can download a file from its link by pointing the mouse pointer to it. FlashGet also catches highlighted links, and downloadable images with an active selection.
- FlashGot can help the external download manager download password-protected archives by grabbing the password (which you select), and passing it on to the download manager.
- You can set FlashGot to batch download links from an entire webpage. You can then selectively download them in the external download program.
- Though proven for YouTube, you can use FlashGot’s media download feature to grab the downloadable addresses of the streaming video files and get them with the download manager.
Video DownloadHelper
Usually, it is videos we download the most with an in-browser download manager. Video DownloadHelper is for downloading all those YouTube videos and other streaming videos like it. Video DownloadHelper works well with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.
You will immediately see the program’s icon (animated colored balls) after you install it. The icon starts spinning when you land on a site with downloadable videos and start playing a video. Do note that you have to play the video. Click on the icon to view and select the available video format for download. As you can see from the screen above, DownloadHelper gives you a few more options like downloading and converting the files to a suitable format.
Here are the formats available for conversion:
You can also send the file directly to your cell phone if it is connected to your computer.
These three Firefox download managers are not only efficient tools, but each gives you something different. Which one is your pick? Or have I missed a blinder from the large gallery? Do mention in the comments.
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Did You Know
The Mozilla Firefox browser was originally called Phoenix 0.1.
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Mozilla Firefox is a popular Web browser available on a variety of platforms. Its code DNA reaches back to the dawn of the World Wide Web and has shaped other software and software companies, including The Tor Project (Windows, Android, Mac), the Opera browser (Windows, Android Mac) Adobe Acrobat (Windows, Android, Mac, iOS) Oracle, and Logitech.
Pros
Battery-friendly video streaming: We tested video streaming on both Firefox and Chrome. While Chrome usually provides smoother page scrolling, Firefox surprisingly pulled ahead when it came to CPU power consumption with HD videos on YouTube, one of the most popular browsing activities. This power consumption has a direct effect on how long your battery lasts, and on the likelihood of a laptop fan noisily kicking in to keep your PC cool.
Easy reading thanks to smooth text scrolling: On a text-heavy Web page, Firefox does a better job than Google Chrome (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS) at making vertical scrolling scale to your Windows mouse settings. While the default scroll speed is relatively slow, Firefox has a lot more steps between 'not enough' and 'way too much.' Text-heavy webpages also tend to glide up and down more smoothly in response to your mouse wheel movements, which makes it easier for your eye to track where you are on a page. However, Chrome still scrolls more smoothly on media-heavy pages.
Highly customizable interface navigation: Mozilla introduced a UI overhaul in November 2013 that didn't go over very well. Among other things, the standard menu design was replaced with a 'hamburger' button that opened to reveal a number of icons. On the bright side, Mozilla gives developers deep access into modifying Firefox's behavior, and one of them quickly introduced Classic Theme Restorer, which ended up giving Firefox the most user-customizable interface of any browser on the market, even three years later. With Classic Theme Restorer, the bookmarks button doesn't have to look (confusingly) like a clipboard; you can tell at a glance which custom search engine you have loaded; and you can freely mix design elements from both the 'classic' UI and the overhaul.
Cons
Underwhelming performance on media-heavy Web pages: Embedded videos, animated images, and large static images have become a very popular way for both advertisers and content creators to reach their audiences. But this rich-media environment takes its toll on a Web browser that can't load all that data smoothly. Chrome feels prepared for this evolution, while Firefox arguably requires an ad blocker to prevent chunky scrolling and delayed loading of different sections on the page. (Firefox on Android fares much better in this department.) Basically, Chrome feels optimized for visual elements, while Firefox feels optimized for reading.
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Mozilla has committed to finally replacing the Gecko page rendering engine with a new one called Quantum, but the company doesn't expect to make it available until the end of 2017.
Sync requires managing another account: With Google Chrome, you can log in to your Google account (which you already have if you use Gmail or subscribe to YouTube channels), and it will pull in your bookmarks, add-ons, and themes from any other device where you've used the Chrome browser with that Google account. With Firefox, you need to create a separate Firefox account, which you won't use anywhere else. Thankfully, though, the login screen works just fine with password managers like LastPass (Chrome desktop, Firefox desktop, iOS, Android).
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Bottom Line
Though it needs some initial setup to perform smoothly, Firefox is a robust and trustworthy browser.