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Reviews for WX Download Status Bar

WX Download Status Bar by Joseph Wensley

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Review by zeus163
by zeus163, 7 years ago
--Just an update...while I really like the new beta, I had to disable it for now. While downloading and using the new beta many pages were unresponsive. I had a hard time even typing in this window. I'm going to revert back to the official version for the time being, but for quick testing purposes, I had simply disabled the new version and that solved the problem. The new beta is slick...but performance was taking a hit.

--what I previously said...Wow. The new beta is pretty slick. Smaller progress bar and the ability to minimize the progress bar were the two I was looking forward to the most. I've now changed my review to five stars since it really does meet my needs the way I'd like to. Sure, there are some small tweaks I'd love to see, but this is going a direction that I'm very happy with.

Sorry others don't realize the functionality of the old download status bar can't be done with the newest versions of Firefox. But what you are doing makes up for it (mostly). Thanks!

Developer response

posted 7 years ago
Please create an issue on GitHub about the unresponsiveness. Add your OS, PC specs and number of tabs and downloads you had at the time you saw it.

I haven't noticed any performance issues myself but it could just be the tabs/downloads/machine I'm testing with.
192 reviews
  • by Sopor, 25 days ago
    It seems that every Download status bar extension is out-of-date. Sad that they all are broken in different ways. 😥
  • by Iantuition, 7 months ago
    Nearly 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.
  • by Vindikato, 7 months ago
    Ne marche pas
  • by Rob, 7 months ago
    How 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.
  • by rado84, 9 months ago
    Doesn't work at all, totally useless! The "status bar" won't even show up when a download starts.
  • by XXVII, 10 months ago
  • by Sizemic-HUGE!, a year ago
    Excellent plugin. And love the latest (Mar 31, 2024) customization features! Amazing.
  • by Mia Adamson, a year ago
    Not bad but it isn't working sometimes
  • by RJ Ray, a year ago
    Works very well, thanks!
  • by R.K. Devere, a year ago
    Works well, thank you.
  • by Herman Blume, a year ago
    It'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.
  • by Firefox user 17855952, 2 years ago
  • by Cam, 2 years ago
    Of 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?
  • by Diego, 2 years ago
  • by Drafer, 3 years ago
  • by Krona, 3 years ago
    I wished it worked like Chrome and, sometimes, it's impossible to close the bar without restarting Firefox.
  • by Goldi, 4 years ago
  • by Iren, 4 years ago
  • by Eli, 4 years ago
  • by Bandhi, 4 years ago
  • by Dorraj, 4 years ago
    It 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.
  • by Firefox user 15414620, 4 years ago
    Doesn't work. You cannot open anything from the statusbar
  • by Umpahpah, 4 years ago
    Useful tool, perhaps some design is needed (too large when page size is change, but overall qute good
  • by Darkas, 4 years ago
    No complains.
  • by Firefox user 11050938, 4 years ago
    Yep. It needs single-click opening -- better yet, an "open when done" function. And a smaller footprint, at least as an option.