Reviews for Download Star
Download Star by liebs
188 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Skott, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ffw62, 8 years agoVery nice! Thank you so much!
I have been looking for a DownThemAll replacement for a lllong time. This is really helpful.
I hope, one day, it will be able to add linked text to downloaded file (often a description), create a log file of URLs, linked text and downloaded file names and remove the % from the file names. Again, many thanks, I hope you will keep on developing this add-on. - Rated 5 out of 5by lemonstar, 8 years agoReally simple to use. Quick. Works first time. Perfect for quickly downloading a load of pdf files from an educational website. Thank-you - it'll be very useful.
- Rated 4 out of 5by aswicks, 8 years agoThis downloads into whatever directory you have defined as your default download directory in subdirectory DownloadStar. Works fine. But, when looking at downloads in Firefox and select 'Open Containing Folder' nothing happens. When I open a PDF and then examine Properties I can find the directory that way.
But, I would really, really like to have the option of selecting the download directory like the old version.
Thanks for this plugin. I have missed this ability. Please keep up the good work. - Rated 3 out of 5by ChrisW, 8 years agoThis add-on does what it says and works fine with the limited features it implemented. It works etter than some other add-ons which were advertised as a replacement for DownThemAll. - A more useful way of selecting a download-folder with a 'Save As' dialog could make this extension better. Also the built-in downloader of FF is quite limited, as you cannot cancel a list of pending downloads.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13816259, 8 years agoIt seems like FF tries to download all files simultaneously instead of one by one, making FF very slow and unresponsive and downloads do not even start automatically if there are too many. You have to cancel and retry one by one.
Also unable to change download location, only a subfolder in the default download location can be made. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12830901, 8 years agoIt does not need to interact with an external program, but simply controls Firefox' integrated download manager - great approach! And it replaces DownThemAll's ability to select from the links in a website, with less clutter. The fast filter could be greatly improved by adding a logic OR operator, though.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xxjohndifoolxx, 8 years agoGreat addon ! very useful ! 5 stars for me but i would like that we can choose the download folder, that's all !
- Rated 5 out of 5by vidhyarthi, 8 years agoWorks great. It downloads only to the specified location of DownloadStar/
which is in the download directory C:\Users\\Downloads
If you change the path, it doesn't work. At last a DTA replacement. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13891282, 8 years agoI was so excited! It looks great, appears easy to use and was promising to be the replacement for Downloadthemall. HOWEVER! It appears it is doing everything it was asked to do however, no files are downloaded. Strangely enough though you can click on the download list and it will show the file but the items are not on your hard-drive where it says they were dropped. Please keep working on it, so close!
- Rated 2 out of 5by pras92, 8 years agoLooks promising, but didn't work for me unfortunately. Adds a process to the download bar without any filename extension, and sometimes completes the download progress too, but no file is downloaded. I tried with https://news18.com
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13284435, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Héctor Pinargote Celorio, 8 years agoAunque es experimental funciona bastante bien y es una buen alternativa a DownThem All que de momento no funciona todavía en Firefox Quantum
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13847359, 8 years agoI found this app because I was looking for a DownloadThemAll replacement, since it is no longer supported by the "new" and "improved" Firefox. It works as described, and saved me 380 clicks! The one thing I would love to see improved is the filenaming. The link on the website says "AN293: Temperature Compensated Real Time Clock Reference Design Programmer's Guide", the filename when I hover over the link is "an293.zip". Which do you think I would rather have?
DownloadThemAll solved this by allowing me to pick naming conventions.
Great job, otherwise. - Rated 5 out of 5by BlackWinny, 8 years agoCould you make the detection not sensible to the case of the extension letters, please ? For exemple currently it detects correctly the .pdf files but not the .PDF files.
Another suggestion, less urgent, would be also to be able to reproduce the tree of the subdictories as did DownThemAll. - Rated 5 out of 5by mnnn238, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13054787, 8 years agoThe ability to select multiple with shift+click would really make a big difference for me.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13769226, 8 years agoOn FF 59, the feature to capture links works fine, but the final feature to add any item(s) in download queue not work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13191116, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13433377, 8 years agoMe gusta que se puede descargar rápidamente, y usando filtros, múltiples archivos. Es una excelente alternativa a DownThemAll. El complemento funcionó como esperaba. Es útil y fácil de usar para mí. Un problema para mí es no he podido ampliar la ventana o abrir en otra pestaña, porque cuando los URL tienen muchos caracteres no se llega a ver completamente el nombre. Sugiero utilizar este complemento para descargar múltiple links.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Grey-Black-White, 8 years agoI have only used it a few times where there were a few PDFs on the web page and it worked without any problem. Another time I used it to download a gif image from giphy.com. So far I am happy with it. I hope to see it further developed in the future to fill the gap of a good alternative to downthemall.