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marklieberman / downloadstar

Download all items in a webpage that match a pattern
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[Suggestion] Limit the amount of concurrently downloaded files #19

Closed SXZ1 closed 6 years ago

SXZ1 commented 6 years ago

Hello! As the title says, it would be great to add an ability to limit the amount of concurrently downloaded files. Right now Download Star imports all selected files to the built-in Firefox download manager at once. That's not very convenient with big number of selected files because Firefox starts to download them all at the same time.

Thank you very much!

marklieberman commented 6 years ago

I don't want to go and implement a whole download manager in this addon. If DtA Lite ever releases, I'm pretty sure everyone will switch to that. Possibly, I can add the downloads and then pause them and limit it to 2-4 concurrent downloads.

OkanEsen commented 6 years ago

I actually think about this the same way as @marklieberman does. I use this addon because it's quite lightweight and doesn't feel packed with huge features making it cumbersome to use.

For me personally the files to download range between 5-10 maximum and the file sizes are between 1-10MB so downloading them all at once isn't that huge for the network to deal.