Five Firefox add-ons for a download Junkie

Posted on April 14, 2009 at 5:48 am

Firefox comes with a decent download manager that works pretty well, but that isn’t enough if your queue is too long and extends for days. You have to admit that using it is a pain in the neck particularly when managing a large number of downloads.

Check out these add-ons for Firefox that could come in handy for the download junkie that is you:

DownThemAll – Download

DownThemAll has become synonymous with download management inside Firefox and it’d be a shame if it isn’t included in this list. It’s the number one add-on that all download junkies should install in their Firefox browser.

Besides just letting you manage your downloads better, it accelerates the download rate as well. The best part is a feature called dTa One Click using which you can very easily download all the media present in a web page in just a click.

Download Status – Download

By default, the Firefox status bar shows only the number of downloads that are running. It doesn’t give you options to do more. That’s when the Download Status add-on comes as a savior, by improving on that aspect and displaying additional information like the download speed and estimated time left for completion in the status bar.

Download Status Bar – Download

Download Status Bar can be used to completely manage downloads from your status bar without any interruption to your browsing activities. All your downloads are represented on the status bar and you can right click on any file to pause, resume, stop the download, among other things. Very feature rich when you compare it with the aforementioned add-on.

Download Sort – Download

Download Sort is a huge timesaver, especially if you download web page elements frequently. Download Sort works with ‘Save Link As’ and ‘Save Image As’ options in the right click menu. You can create rules to save files of a particular format in a particular directory. For instance, Download Sort can be used to save any .jpg file you download into your My Pictures folder so that you needn’t have to specify it every time.

FireTorrent – Download

FireTorrent is a torrent client that’s built for Firefox. With FireTorrent installed, you can manage torrent downloads inside Firefox just like they were normal file downloads. You can, of course, control the download and upload speeds. Encryption and proxy connections are supported as well. Several things might be missing, but it does make up as a good torrent client.