Could it be that these download managers only have some effect when your physical network allows for high speeds?īut in that case, if you already have high-speed big-city internet, why would you still need some marginal kind of further speed-up? Do those few seconds you may gain in download time justify burdening your browser with yet another extension? As I said, I don’t quite get the point. Now maybe this lack of effect has something to do with me living in a place where truly high internet speeds are not available anyway (the max speed that providers can deliver in my village is just over 6 Mbps). In the past I’ve tried some for myself, but I never noticed much download speed difference. To be honest, I’ve never fully understood the point of “download manager” extensions like this. The most pressing matters right now are to fix the missing information (speed, time left) in the UI, and to add global controls to modify the number of download threads and other parameters using an options menu.Īll in all though this is something that is worth keeping an eye on to see how it develops. It seems to work well already especially when it comes to large downloads and if that is your main priority, may be worth testing it on your system. The add-on is clearly a work in progress. Turbo Download Manager offers no options page currently to modify the number of threads or other parameters for all downloads initiated through Firefox's save dialog. There you find options to change the number of available threads, define the thread timeout and to set download links and referring pages. While it displays the download progress in percent and a progress bar, it is not listing speed and time left information currently even though those are listed in the interface.Įach download can be paused or stopped using the controls displayed on the right, and there is a search available to filter results which may be useful if you run lots of downloads in Firefox throughout the day.ĭownloads can be run directly from the interface as well without going through Firefox's save dialog first. The beta nature of the add-on limits what is displayed here currently. There you find listed all complete and running downloads. A click on the icon opens the main interface of the add-on. The Turbo Download Manager icon indicates if downloads are currently active. It adds a context menu entry as well that you can use to download linked files directly without going through the dialog first. The download manager adds itself to Firefox's save file dialog from where you may select it for individual downloads or make it the default choice from that moment on. This may speed up the time it takes to download files under certain conditions, for instance if bandwidth is limited on the server side or if a single connection to the server the file is hosted on does not max out your home connection speed. So, instead of downloading a file from start to finish, it is dividing the download into parts that all start to download simultaneously. It is currently limited to speeding up downloads by using threads. Turbo Download Manager is a brand new add-on that is currently in beta that aims to fill the gap. The loss of the extension would be a serious blow as there is no comparable add-on available for Firefox currently. When Mozilla announced that it would make major changes to Firefox's add-on system, several developers announced that they would stop supporting their extensions for the browser including the developer of Down Them All.
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