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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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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