Reviews for WX Download Status Bar
WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley
Review by Firefox user 13614700
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 13614700, 7 years agoPoor copy of old and vastly superior Download Statusbar.
It has no bonus options of old one, no popup info when hovering pointer over file that downloads, if downloaded file has long name, you have to open containing folder to see it fully (not useful when downloading lots of similarly named files).
It cover sizeable chunk of screen (compared to just enough from old one), and Divines help you if you did not click on "keep it in one row" option...
Since sadly old one was not updated anymore, apparently creator of this one tried to cash in on users which could not go without old one.
PS: I see dev got butthurt by being called out on his poor copy. Made my day.
Wanna good review? Make something useful.
It has no bonus options of old one, no popup info when hovering pointer over file that downloads, if downloaded file has long name, you have to open containing folder to see it fully (not useful when downloading lots of similarly named files).
It cover sizeable chunk of screen (compared to just enough from old one), and Divines help you if you did not click on "keep it in one row" option...
Since sadly old one was not updated anymore, apparently creator of this one tried to cash in on users which could not go without old one.
PS: I see dev got butthurt by being called out on his poor copy. Made my day.
Wanna good review? Make something useful.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe old extensions are dead and aren't coming back.
If the tooltips or something aren't working for you create an issue on GitHub instead of acting like an entitled douchebag.
If you don't like this extension feel free to make a better one, it seems so far I'm the only person to put any effort into creating a replacement. I made this because there was no existing replacement and I wanted one, not to "cash in", since I'm not getting paid for it anyways.
If the tooltips or something aren't working for you create an issue on GitHub instead of acting like an entitled douchebag.
If you don't like this extension feel free to make a better one, it seems so far I'm the only person to put any effort into creating a replacement. I made this because there was no existing replacement and I wanted one, not to "cash in", since I'm not getting paid for it anyways.
192 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sopor, 25 days 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 9 months 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, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sizemic-HUGE!, a year agoExcellent plugin. And love the latest (Mar 31, 2024) customization features! Amazing.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Herman Blume, a year 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cam, 2 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Drafer, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Krona, 3 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 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15414620, 4 years agoDoesn't work. You cannot open anything from the statusbar
- Rated 4 out of 5by Umpahpah, 4 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, 4 years agoYep. It needs single-click opening -- better yet, an "open when done" function. And a smaller footprint, at least as an option.