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A Firefox web extension that displays a list of your recent downloads in the sidebar

Downloads sidebar web extension

This extension will display a list of your latest downloads in the Firefox sidebar.

The latest version is 1.0

How do I use this?

Open your Firefox sidebar and choose "Downloads" from the top drop-down list.

Keyboard shortcut is F4.

There is also a browser toolbar button which opens the Downloads sidebar.

Features

  • pause, resume, cancel, retry, erase download
  • copy download link
  • open download page link
  • show downloaded file in folder
  • open downloaded file directly by clicking on its icon, or double-clicking anywhere else
  • erase all recent downloads that are not active (active = downloading or paused)

Screenshot

Credits

  • uses Ractive.js (https://github.com/ractivejs/ractive)
  • downloads icon by Pixel perfect on flaticon (https://www.flaticon.com/authors/pixel-perfect)
  • play and pause icons by ionicons (http://ionicons.com)
  • cancel, copy, open external, folder and retry icon from firefox (https://design.firefox.com/icons/viewer/)

Contributions (thank you!)

  • Josep Maria Salvia Hornos (https://github.com/josalhor)
    • approximate download speed
    • approximate time remaining for a download
    • updated icons
    • UI adjustments so the extension better fits with the Firefox design guidelines
    • variable speed and time indicators
    • various fixes

Requested features

  • dark theme

Features that are not possible to implement

As of 2018/08/15 it's not possible to implement the following features, because the API is intentionally limiting them or offers no replacement:

  • auto-opening panel after downloading is done
  • auto-opening file after downloading is done
  • dragging and dropping using the official sidebar API doesn't seem possible
  • keyboard shortcut modification