Now give it a test run by downloading a file. At the bottom of the options window you’ll see a dropdown with detected managers as shown below:
You can find these options by going to the Add-ons page and beside the Download Grab add-on click the three dots and select Options. You may however switch between different download managers and configure some download options by going to its options. The extension will automatically detect supported download managers (at least it did for my trusty FDM 3). Now let’s see how to go about installing it.
While this add-on doesn’t have the ability to sniff and grab media links like FlashGot used to, there are plenty of WebExtensions that do just that. Personally, I’m a long-time fan of FDM 3 (FDM 5 pales in comparison) and it’s the biggest reason behind my stubborn clinging to FlashGot. You can find a complete list of supported managers on GitHub here. Currently, it supports many popular download managers such as: It only works on Windows and the only feature that it has replicated so far is that of grabbing download links for external download managers. It should however be noted that this add-on is not a clone of Flashgot. You can check the add-on’s repository on GitHub here. Its development seems to have stalled, however the add-on still works. The extension I’m referring to is called Download Grab and is developed by Pouria Pirhadi. That led me to the FlashGot forums, where surprisingly I found this thread of someone that had attempted to make a FlashGot-like extension.ĭownload Grab – A Flashgot-like Addon for Firefox This got me wondering if somebody else had attempted to make a fork in the WebExtension format. That’s until recently, when I came across a fork of FlashGot for Palemoon called Grabit. Desperate, I installed Palemoon and used FlashGot with it whenever I needed to until it eventually got outdated there too. I’ve since then tried many extensions, but nothing has ever comes close to the awesomeness of FlashGot. It’s here that I unfortunately realized that FlashGot wasn’t available in the Add-ons store. Meanwhile, for those that gave in and updated to Quantum, Mozilla added insult to injury with some annoying update notifications.įor a few months I held my ground using Firefox ESR, but eventually I too capitulated to the new brave world of Quantum. For those that had to use them, this meant sticking with outdated Firefox versions.
Some extensions that we had grown accustomed to however never got around to having this rebirth, which meant they became incompatible with all new Firefox versions.
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