Changes in Firefox 57

[Melchior82]

Do grow up seriously lols went out with the nineties and using all caps is just rude

haha.. lol

opinion... feelings...

rude? ehh probably not...
CAP'd for emphasis, YELLING, and/or melodramatic = overemotional

[malliz]

All caps is considered shouting on the internet. Shouting is not polite. Therefore, it is bad netiquette to use all caps on the internet because shouting is not polite.

[Mouse5]

I decided to make a “lite” DTA web extension after all.
Of course, it will have serious limitations and far fewer features, but that’s a limitation of WebExtensions and what can you do? Those limitations so far created a bunch of road blocks that will prevent DTA from working correctly in a lot of cases (like the inability to specify HTTP Referers).

On a maybe positive, it should be easy enough to support Chrome too (and Opera, etc?)

This is roughly the progress so far. I also implemented the Add Download (single URL) user interface for the most part, as well as internal queue tracking.

Regarding the actual downloading, I am still undecided how to best proceed there. There is things we could do with blob: “files” to support segmented downloads and proper resuming and a ton of other things, but browser support right now looks fragile at best…

I’ll update y’all once I got a version ready for public testing.
http://www.downthemall.net/progress/

interesting that the New DTA will also work in Chrome.

[smsmith]

interesting that the New DTA will also work in Chrome.

Not all that interesting. Part of the web extension push was chrome-parity and to allow chrome extension writers to more easily target Firefox. Write once, deploy everywhere.

[mightyglydd]

Hmm..what happened to downloading from the Chrome Store..wasn't that mentioned by MozCo way back ?

[Brummelchen]

is not working, manifest is different. then it depends on the code, some is working, but currently most into-deep not. (eg cookies not working, or bookmarks)
dTa is NOT in chrome store.

[fits79]

If i tell my opinion and nothing more i spam???

Are you serious????

And ok tell me replacements for these addons/plugins:
adblock plus, classic theme restorer, add to search bar, copy links, password exporter, tab mix plus(Κυρίως για να έχω τα tabs κάτω και όχι πάνω), saved password editor, mozzila archive format. youtube converter, download manager s3, youtube mp3 podcaster

[Melchior82]

If i tell my opinion and nothing more i spam???

Are you serious????

And ok tell me replacements for these addons/plugins:

wow I use some of those too..
- CTR (Classic Theme Restorer), NO yet replacements yet, that I know of!
- TMP (Tab Mix Plus), NO yet replacements yet, that I know of!
- MAF (Mozilla Archive Format), NO yet replacements yet, that I know of!

- DMT (Download Manager Tweak)(What I use), --> some one on the forums mentioned a replacement,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elite-download-manager/
its still young though so not many features..

etc...


Replace AdBlock PLUS with
uBlock Origin's current version (v1.14.10) is Web Ext. moving forward..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Also I use for YouTube extraction...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/


And that is all I can say at this point...

[fits79]

I don't like the ublock. Ui is toooo poor compare with adblock plus.

[GHM113]

And ok tell me replacements for these addons/plugins:

Classic Theme Restorer - depends on what you need, some UI tweaks are available through .css
Tab Mix Plus - major part of functionality is not possible without toolbar API
MAF - not available, as an alternative save web page as .pdf
Download manager - will be possible with toolbar API

[Melchior82]

I don't like the ublock. Ui is toooo poor.

lol as if! its UI might be lacking a bit..
BUT whats more important?! IT DOES ITS JOB!

[GHM113]

Ui is toooo poor compare with adblock plus.

You haven't seen AdBlock Plus WebExtension UI...

[fits79]

yes you are correct.
This:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -download/
doesn't support youtube 1080p and more download so it's useless.

[fits79]

And ok tell me replacements for these addons/plugins:

Classic Theme Restorer - depends on what you need, some UI tweaks are available through .css
Tab Mix Plus - major part of functionality is not possible without toolbar API
MAF - not available, as an alternative save web page as .pdf
Download manager - will be possible with toolbar API

What is the toolbar api?
And i believe the tab appear down and not up i believe this is can't happened at firefox 57.

[GHM113]

What is the toolbar api?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215064

And i believe the tab appear down and not up i believe this is can't happened at firefox 57.

If you need tabs at the bottom of the browser window (basically, right above the Windows taskbar) then .css won't help, unfortunately. Actually, it will - see page 42. Tabs below the bookmarks toolbar are also possible.

doesn't support youtube 1080p and more download so it's useless.

Many youtube downloaders don't support 1080p because youtube separates the audio and video streams into two distinct files. That means you need to manually merge video and audio into a single file using video converter.