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Download Statusbar - Today's Browser Tip
by Jordan Running Oct 11th 2005 at 9:00PM
Awhile back we featured the Download Manager Tweak, an extension that lets you open Firefox's Download Manager in a new tab or in a sidebar. Download Statusbar takes it one step further by creating a new status bar that lists all of your downloads and shows their progress. It features everything that the regular Download Manager has, and a few more, in a slim package.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mike said 9:59PM on 10-11-2005
Too bad they haven't updated it (or about 20 of the other extensions i have become very accustomed to) to work with the latest beta. Firefox is feeling so naked since that upgrade.
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Steve said 12:18AM on 10-12-2005
I've been using this extension for a couple months and I have to say it's extremely usefully and easy to use. Plus it doesn't hurt that the annoying Download Manager doesn't pop up anymore. haha.
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AFD said 6:30PM on 10-12-2005
I've been using this extension ever since I first started using Firefox (v0.8 or 0.9 I think) and it is a great improvement over the download manager.
Would really like to see Mozilla re-work the download manager to work more like this for their next major release.
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tom said 12:33AM on 10-18-2005
I did use this extension for a short while maybe 6 months ago. I like to leave things in my download manager, and so, even though I had nothing d/ling It was still there and I just didnt like it. I think I had a bug issue with it, but it was a long time ago. I have since started using download manager tweak, it opens the manager in a new tab, I prefer it that way. I do reccomend download statusbar for the people who dont mind having the bar at the bottom of the window.
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