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by napoleoncomplex 5203 days ago
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, can we please get a new download manager? I remember getting excited almost a year ago when an update for it was announced, yet I'm still stuck with this infuriating default which makes me want to smash my screen.

Yes, I'm aware add-ons fix that, I don't want an add-on for something that should exist as a part of Firefox.
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kibwen 5203 days ago
According to the Mozilla wiki[1] the release is on-target for Firefox 14, which means it should hopefully land in Nightly within the next six weeks.

I feel your pain, though. Download Statusbar[2] has been indispensable for my purposes. Will be curious to see if the new download manager will be worth switching back to the default.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:P.A./Panel-based_Download_Mana...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-stat...

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