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fuzzybat23
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FDM Firefox Extension Doesn't Do Anything

Postby fuzzybat23 » Sat May 12, 2018 1:14 pm

As far as I can tell, the firefox extension is largely useless. Unless it opens and directs downloads to the Free Download Manager when you click on the download link, instead of dragging and dropping it, it doesn't really add any integration at all. That's what it should be doing, so if the firefox extension can be modified to redirect download links to FDM instead of firefox's internal downloader, that'd be awesome! And I know this can be done, as other download managers do that exact thing. I ended up dropping those others because, unlike FDM, you can't control the speed of the download with them ;(
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Re: FDM Firefox Extension Doesn't Do Anything

Postby Usher » Sat May 12, 2018 7:56 pm

Could you follow the reporting rules and send required details rather than complaints, please?
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Re: FDM Firefox Extension Doesn't Do Anything

Postby johnlgalt » Sun May 13, 2018 12:24 am

fuzzybat23 wrote:As far as I can tell, the firefox extension is largely useless. Unless it opens and directs downloads to the Free Download Manager when you click on the download link, instead of dragging and dropping it, it doesn't really add any integration at all. That's what it should be doing, so if the firefox extension can be modified to redirect download links to FDM instead of firefox's internal downloader, that'd be awesome! And I know this can be done, as other download managers do that exact thing. I ended up dropping those others because, unlike FDM, you can't control the speed of the download with them ;(


Have to agree with Usher, because it catches more than 90% of the links I open in Firefox, my default browser (and the fact that FDM works so well in Fx is one of the many reasons Fx *is* my default).
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Re: FDM Firefox Extension Doesn't Do Anything

Postby Clive Sorensson » Mon May 14, 2018 10:30 am

fuzzybat23 wrote:As far as I can tell, the firefox extension is largely useless. Unless it opens and directs downloads to the Free Download Manager when you click on the download link, instead of dragging and dropping it, it doesn't really add any integration at all. That's what it should be doing, so if the firefox extension can be modified to redirect download links to FDM instead of firefox's internal downloader, that'd be awesome! And I know this can be done, as other download managers do that exact thing. I ended up dropping those others because, unlike FDM, you can't control the speed of the download with them ;(


Hi, have you verified that the extension is enabled?

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