How to Open, Configure and Speed up the Firefox Download Manager

It goes without saying at this point that the web browsers that most of us have on our PC or mobile are software that allows us to move around the Internet. Hence precisely the importance that programs in the category of Chrome , Edge, Opera, Firefox, etc. have acquired over time.

But of course, from these useful applications that we are talking about here, we can not only simply navigate through the immensity that the Internet offers us. At the same time we will have the possibility to carry out many additional tasks related to all this. To a large extent thanks to the different functionalities that these applications make available to us first-hand. With all this we mean that we can also play from here, work on online platforms, communicate with the rest of the world via voice, text or image, download all kinds of content , etc.

Speed up the Firefox Download Manager

In fact, in these same lines we want to focus precisely on this issue of content downloads. To give you an idea, we are going to talk about the download manager of one of the most popular programs in the sector, we are referring to Firefox . This is a browser developed by the Mozilla firm that has been around for a good number of years.

What is Firefox Download Manager

As we mentioned before, among the many tasks that we carry out from any web browser, downloading content is one of the important. We must bear in mind, as most of you probably already know, that the network is full of all kinds of files. From text documents, photos, videos , programs, PDF files, multimedia presentations, etc.

Well, keep in mind that Firefox offers us its own download manager so that we can better control those files that we download. In this way, we not only download photos or videos, but we also have the possibility to customize the download route, see them again, their route, etc.

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Different ways to open the download manager

Well, once we really know what we are dealing with here, let’s see how we can access this section in Firefox. It is worth mentioning that we have at our disposal two ways to access the Firefox download manager . On the one hand, we can go to the main menu of the program through the button with the three horizontal lines located in the upper right corner.

In the menu that opens then, we select Catalog, where we already find the Downloads entry. But at the same time, if we want to speed up the process, we can use the Ctrl + J key combination.

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What can I do with the saved downloads

At that moment a new window will appear in which we find all the downloads that we have made to date. Specifically, what we see are shortcuts to the files downloaded at the time, listed with their name, source path, size and download date.

To access this content, we just have to double click on its corresponding entry in the Firefox download manager. But we also have the possibility of right-clicking on any of them. This will give us access to its contextual menu that allows us to perform additional tasks with these elements.

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From this menu that we are commenting on, we will have the possibility of opening that content, accessing its download path, going to its original website, copying the link, or deleting only this entry. This allows us to manage everything related to that file that we downloaded at the time, of course, as long as we have not deleted or moved it.

Find a specific download from the manager

It may be the case that the list before which we are, is enormous. This is something that is especially evident if we download a lot of content, or if we have never cleaned here. Therefore, if what we need is to quickly locate a specific download, this task can be complicated.

But what we should know is that the Firefox download manager offers us its own integrated search engine. In this way we only have to type the name of the file that we are looking for here in the corresponding box of the manager window . Say that it is located in the upper right corner of this section.

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Change the path where they are saved by default

Once we install Firefox on the PC , as with most programs of this type, by default everything we download is saved in the System Downloads folder. But this is something that we can customize and manage depending on our needs. With this, what we want to tell you is that we can establish another predetermined route where these downloads will be saved, or make the program ask us the same one each time.

In fact, this last option is the most comfortable and common for most. Therefore, to establish these parameters that we are commenting on, we reopen the Firefox menu , and in this case we do not place in the Options section. Next, in the section called General, we look for the Files and applications section. In it we can already specify what we told you before to save the new downloads.

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How to clean all downloads

It can also be the case that we want to clean all the shortcuts to the manager’s past downloads. Well, this is something that we can do for privacy reasons, or simply because we want to start from scratch in this regard. For this we only have to open the Firefox download manager as we saw before, and click on the Clear downloads button.

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What we must bear in mind here is that this action that we carry out is irreversible, so we lose the list, but not the files downloaded as such.

Extensions to replace the download manager

Once we know everything we need about the aforementioned Firefox download manager, we have to know that it can be improved. That is why many of the program’s regulars prefer to use extensions that replace this element to improve or further control their downloading of content.

That is why in these same lines we are going to show you some examples of all this so that you can use these Firefox extensions to download better content.

Turbo Download Manager

This is a multiple download manager that has a built-in function to capture video, audio and image sources. You could say that it is similar to the Internet Download Manager or JDownloader programs , but for Firefox. Thus, this extension has a function to increase the download speed. This is accomplished by obtaining multiple file segments simultaneously for optimized management.

Developer: InBasic

DownThemAll!

Thanks to this other extension to replace the Firefox manager , we will have the possibility to select, queue, order and execute downloads more quickly. It comes with advanced functions to select which links we want to download. In addition, the extension will remember the previous preferences so that we can queue more downloads with a single mouse click. We can also automatically assign names to these own downloads or establish certain filters.

Developer: Nils Maier