All Recommended content is curated solely for the purpose of providing Firefox users with great browsing tools and experiences. There are thousands of extensions and the vast majority are built with honest intent to provide people with useful tools and features.
But even extensions built with the best intentions may inadvertently expose or otherwise compromise sensitive data. Also, unfortunately, there are a few bad actors out there intent on stealing user data.
One method of mining information can be through tricking users into installing malicious extensions. To be clear, just because an extension is not Recommended, that doesn't mean it's unsafe. When you install an extension into Firefox, you may be presented with a message similar to this one: This is an extension asking your permission By default, Firefox does not come with translation features.
However, you can easily add such a feature by installing an add-on of your choice Search Support Search. Home Firefox Manage preferences and add-ons Manage add-ons Find and install add-ons to add Table of Contents 1 What types of add-ons can I install? For advanced users : You can also install add-ons from a file.
If you saved the installer file to your computer, for example, an. Many sites don't really like their resources to be mass downloaded because this way the users skip the associated ads.
So, in some cases, the URLs are embedded in nonstandard ways or, even worse, the resources are visible on the page as "fake" links, meaning that the real URLs of the resources are generated by the server on the fly, only when the user clicks their name. One solution to this problem is to use an appropriate userscript designed specifically for the site X.
There are some very popular userscript managers around, for example Greasemonkey on Firefox or Tampermonkey on Chrome. If the user knew some javascript he may be able to build for site X a special userscript which facilitates subsequent downloading using Simple Mass Downloader extension.
More precisely, my extension can recognize the special attributes data-smd-url and data-smd-name and use them for mass downloading. Of course, the main problem here is to build the helper userscript. This implies that the knowledgeable user manually analyze the source of the page, and build de appropriate userscript with the aim of embedding into the page via this special attributes the information required for download.
Another solution is to find eventually another extension designed specifically for the site X. There are many extensions of this type. For example one for Google Images downloading, other for SoundCloud etc. There are great chances to find such an extension if the site X is really a very popular one. Question 9. Your extension is not capable to download the full-sized images, but only the thumbnails Answer As for the previous question, it's possible that only the thumbnail links are included in the html source and the full links are obscured using various javascript tricks.
See the previous answer for details and solutions. Question There are too many bugs! You are aware of them? Answer This extension is still in early development, so, unfortunately, bugs are still expected.
Also, I tried to add quite a lot of features and this increased complexity means usually more bugs. Hopefully, this situation will be considerably improved as we approach version 1. How are you enjoying Simple mass downloader? Unhook: Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Comments Hide YouTube related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab, and other distractions. Decentraleyes Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery.
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