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DownThemAll (2019)

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Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

steffoz wrote: post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Thanks for making this! I too used it back in the day. I thought the project died with WebExtensions, good to hear it's back.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by tandr »

steffoz wrote: post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Thank you for such a time-saving extension! I got much more time to read while it was doing what it was doing, instead of endless "right-click, save as" sequences.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by ubercow13 »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #12
bertman wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe have a look at these: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/aria2-integratio... https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/

Thanks. The first one seems to rely on the fact that aria2 can be remotely controlled. This is good, and in case of aria2 may be even the preferred way of using the combo, but it's not the substitute for the basic launching of one program from the other with some data passing. The second one needs the "native client" which I mentioned above. It uses effing python to pass the link from the browser to the player! It's…

This one achieves the same thing without a native client: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by generationP »

Wow, I hadn't expected this to come back given the wind and weather of the present internet! I routinely used this back in the early 2010s, but then I switched to wget (and Chrome) as Firefox destroyed the plugin by changing its addon language.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by BeetleB »

steffoz wrote: post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Another thanks. I used this addon heavily.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by Saint_Genet »

steffoz wrote: post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

I pirated so many low-res seasons of tv shows with this tool.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by ivanmontillam »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #44

I'll be the brave one to say it: download entire image-based porn sites in one click. Porn has gone almost entirely video now, so the days of galleries have largely disappeared. There were auto-indexers as well that would increment URLs based on patterns.

Or download entire 4chan threads. At least the images.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by eitland »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #38
qwerty2021 wrote: post #18

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that's exactly the case. the rewrite took years, and it is only somewhat functional, but I don't blame the dev. pre-quantum version was a finished product, and then suddenly it had to be written from scratch again. I'm surprised he had bothered to do that at all, personally I'd never contribute anything to firefox again after that fucking stunt.

I was responsible for extension author outreach at Mozilla at the time. The anger was terrible. And justified.

You might have knowledge and connections:

Do you see any hope for a fork of modern Firefox that start with just the tiniest stuff, maybe adding back a simple tab strip api to let Tree Style Tabs work properly again, that kind of stuff, then go on to put Mozilla out of business as soon as the economy allows it?

I'm only halfway joking here, and only about putting Mozilla out of business.

Re: DownThemAll (2019)

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Post by approxim8ion »

steffoz wrote: post #40

Wow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils M…

Many thanks to you. This extension was a darling of mine for a really long time, and brought me much joy.
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