Reviews for WX Download Status Bar
WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley
Review by Firefox user 6001196
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 6001196, 8 years agoThe best replacement for "Download Manager (S3)" that I've found so far, first of all I'd like to thank the developer for his/her hard work doing this for free for all of us to enjoy! :)
It does need some polishing, so if you could consider my suggestions I would appreciate it:
1) As many have said, the bar is too thick right now. It gets even thicker when downloading many files at once. Also, it changes size when you zoom in our out in a tab. And when you change to another tab, the bar either disappears or changes size according to the zoom level of each tab.
Please fix this making the bar size smaller, not dependent on each tab's size, and visible in all tabs/browser.
2) I'd also like if you could add some more info, like file icons, download speed, percentage... And that you could choose what info to show.
3) Add an option to "retry" when a download fails.
4) Add auto-clear option.
5) Add option to change color. Maybe even to the Firefox theme you are using.
6) Sometimes a download does not appear on the download bar for some reason (but it does appear on Firefox download history). Looks like a bug.
It does need some polishing, so if you could consider my suggestions I would appreciate it:
1) As many have said, the bar is too thick right now. It gets even thicker when downloading many files at once. Also, it changes size when you zoom in our out in a tab. And when you change to another tab, the bar either disappears or changes size according to the zoom level of each tab.
Please fix this making the bar size smaller, not dependent on each tab's size, and visible in all tabs/browser.
2) I'd also like if you could add some more info, like file icons, download speed, percentage... And that you could choose what info to show.
3) Add an option to "retry" when a download fails.
4) Add auto-clear option.
5) Add option to change color. Maybe even to the Firefox theme you are using.
6) Sometimes a download does not appear on the download bar for some reason (but it does appear on Firefox download history). Looks like a bug.
Developer response
posted 8 years ago1) There is a beta version with a smaller bar. Fixing the zoom issue is not possible until Mozilla adds a toolbar API.
2) Download speed is in the beta, other stuff is in the tooltip but could be added to the bar in the future.
3) Might be possible, I'll have to look at the API
4) There is already an option to auto clear downloads after a certain amount of time.
5) I'll probably add more themes, and customization in the future
6) If seen this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it consistently to fix it, I'm not sure if it is a bug in the addon or Firefox.
2) Download speed is in the beta, other stuff is in the tooltip but could be added to the bar in the future.
3) Might be possible, I'll have to look at the API
4) There is already an option to auto clear downloads after a certain amount of time.
5) I'll probably add more themes, and customization in the future
6) If seen this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it consistently to fix it, I'm not sure if it is a bug in the addon or Firefox.
191 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sopor, 7 months 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, a year 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, a year 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, a year 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, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sizemic-HUGE!, 2 years agoExcellent plugin. And love the latest (Mar 31, 2024) customization features! Amazing.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Herman Blume, 2 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, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Drafer, 3 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, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Iren, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eli, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bandhi, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Dorraj, 4 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, 5 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, 5 years agoYep. It needs single-click opening -- better yet, an "open when done" function. And a smaller footprint, at least as an option.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Azerik, 5 years agoWould almost be perfect if I could more easily open files from the status bar. Double clicking, then clicking an "open file" pop-up is not intuitive or efficient.