DownThemAll: Latest News

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 loosing 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/