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gautamkrishnar / motrix-webextension

A browser extension for the Motrix Download Manager
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[Feature] Download file using Browser if Motrix is not open #123

Closed Heus-Sueh closed 1 year ago

Heus-Sueh commented 1 year ago

Motivation: Edit: it ends up being frustrating when you want to download a file but he doesn't find the motrix open

Proposal: Download file using Browser itself if Motrix is not open

gautamkrishnar commented 1 year ago

@Heus-Sueh unfortunately, as it is stated in the readme it is required to keep motrix open. There is no way for the extension to open Motrix automatically. It is a security feature imposed by browsers. If any extension is able to open your apps it can pretty much hack you. https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/motrix-webextension Screenshot 2023-05-06 at 8 32 34 PM

Heus-Sueh commented 1 year ago

sorry i wasn't clear enough in the explanation i updated my issue description

I didn't want to propose for the extension to open motrix if it hasn't been opened

gautamkrishnar commented 1 year ago

@Heus-Sueh thanks for clarifying. It is already implemented on https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/motrix-webextension/pull/120 which is now available for chrome and firefox.

Can you please try it and let me know if its working?

Heus-Sueh commented 1 year ago

sorry for the delay in replying, i was trying to test if this #120 was working but the extension stopped working here in my browser

gautamkrishnar commented 1 year ago

@Heus-Sueh Which browser are you using? it works fine for me on chrome.

Heus-Sueh commented 1 year ago

@Heus-Sueh Which browser are you using? it works fine for me on chrome.

I'm using librewolf, I think there was some bug in the browser here but it's back working, #120 doesn't seem to work at least not on linux

gautamkrishnar commented 1 year ago

This extension won't support libre wolf officially, Please try using Firefox instead. Also, it needs to be on the latest version since I recently migrated to Manifest v3. I tested on firefox mac and it is working as expected.