DownThemAll: Latest News

We are proud to release the first preview of the upcoming next major version of DownThemAll!.

More than 1 year of development passed since the last major version. This was mostly due to time constraints, as DownThemAll! is still developed by a small team of three as a hobbyist project.

Lots of new features and refinements went into this preview release, such as speed limits, mirror management, fine-grained connection control, text-link recognition and many more.

? Download and release notes

As this is preview software, some features might be still missing or incomplete. Bugs have to be expected.
Please report any issues you find back to our bug tracker.

Thanks for testing!

We released DownThemAll! Version 1.1.9, which is a maintenance and bugfix release.

We fixes some rare situation where the preallocator did not kick in (resuming a not fully allocated file), which caused even worse Firefox hangs than without preallocator.
We also fixed some issues with using DownThemAll! in combination with a dark theme (some dark themes might still not work in some parts; we either fix issues ourselves or notify the theme authors as issues become known).
Then there were a few reports that Firefox might not correctly start up after installation, which seems to be caused by the initial notice window we shown after fresh installations or major upgrades. We disabled this for now, to see how that goes.
Version 2.0 will not have any such window anymore; instead we’re in the process to create a first run page detailing some basic usage.
Windows 7 users observing high memory usage should also have a look at the release notes; We detail the situation there and link the hotfix Microsoft issued.

You can get it on addons.mozilla.org. You may also want to check out our release notes.

DownThemAll! got nominated in the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards in the category Best Overall Add-On (Non-Security).

Now it’s up to you to vote for DownThemAll! 😉

The competition is very strong, which makes it even more remarkable that we got nominated, and we certainly cannot beat Adblock Plus (which got my vote; don’t vote for yourself). But being in the top 5 already is a great sign of your, the DownThemAll! users, support and trust.
Thank you very much for that!

For those wondering: The next major release is still in the works, and makes pretty good progress. Expect a first official Beta version in the next few weeks. Or try the development version already using a nightly build.

We’re proud to release DownThemAll! 1.1.8, which is a bugfix release.

We corrected some issues with the integration into Firefox Privacy Controls (Clear private data and such), and furthermore fixed a bug with resuming downloads after being redirected from HTTP to FTP.
Some other minor changes went in as well.

You can get it on addons.mozilla.org. You may also want to check out our release notes.

One of our users dropped us a mail saying that he made a DownThemAll! video tutorial for people who speak Spanish.
Unfortunately I don’t speak Spanish myself, so I do not really understand what he says, but the video looks good.
Enjoy 😉
Many thanks to meneameland

Check out his blog for downloads of this video in other formats.

Of course, there are many other videos in all kinds of languages on YouTube.

The DownThemAll! Team hopes you’re spending happy holidays, and wishes you and your families an amazing 2010!

As more and more people are asking us for a DownThemAll! version for Google Chrome:

We won’t support Google Chrome (and Chromium for that matter) in the near future, if ever.

There are multiple reasons not to support Google Chrome (at the moment):

• While support for some types of extensions was added to Chrome just recently, the extension system in Chrome simply doesn’t cut it. It is only very limited in what you can do. Right now there is no way to port dTa over without losing the majority of functionality.
• Even if there were the technical means to port dTa! to Google Chrome, we still wouldn’t have the time and resources to support it.

  Right now we’re in the middle of university studies or only recently completed our degrees and hence need to “settle” for a real-life work. Some of us are now family men.

  As you clearly noticed the number of dTa! releases was always low with only a major release once a year. Due to these time constraints we don’t think we can handle supporting yet another application.

• We are not yet sure about the privacy in Chrome. Chrome itself is closed source (not to confuse with the Chromium basis, which is open source) and it can only be guessed what happens “behind the scenes”. Google Chrome is known to transmit data back to the google servers. This kept us away from using Google Chrome, although we watched the progress made so far.
• Lastly, we are still Mozilla supporters.
  While this surely won’t keep us away from a Chrome port, it surely does not provide us with a lot of motivation to code for Google Chrome.
  Not only is Firefox the superior browser in our opinion, the Mozilla Foundation and Co. and the great people in the Mozilla community – developers, translators, designers, users and all the other folks – and the truly “open” mindset keep us in the Mozilla base. 😉

Thanks for your interest in a dTa! version for Google Chrome, but we have to pass at this time.
Nils

Update 2009/12/11:
Here is Giorgio Maones take on the Chrome extension system, with some explanation why there are no NoScript or decent ad-blockers for Google Chrome yet:
http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/

Five years of Firefox. 5. It seems like yesterday when we released DownThemAll! for the first time.

A long time has gone, and dTa has grown up along with Firefox, in the common purpose to improve the web experience of Internet users. Firefox’s got more than 25% of the browsers’ market starting from zero, and most of all it has made the web better, safer and faster.

We as add-on developers, you as users, promoters, translators and donors have been part of this miracle, and we all have had our role in making this world a little better.

We want to thank Mozilla for having built such a great piece of software, and DownThemAll! users for their support and their more-than-30-million downloads.

Well done, mates. We’re a great team.

DownThemAll! 1.1.7 is now available.
This version is the first to officially support Seamonkey 2. We’d like to thank the Seamonkey developers for their hard work and congratulate them for the release.

Other than this we updated locales and added es-GL and tr-TR.

You can find details here, and download it here.

DownThemAll! 1.1.6 is now available.
The new preallocator code introduced in the last release contains a bug where temporary files will be recreated if an previously completed download is gone but still in the list when the manager is reopened. Only large files were recreated.
Version 1.1.6 fixes this.

We are sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused.

You can find details here, and download it here.