Nightly Tester Tools is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the extension developer’s website.

When upgrading to a newer version of Firefox, you may notice that some of your older extensions are not compatible. To find out which extensions are incompatible, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Add-Ons.

You incompatible extensions will have a red exclamation point icon:

Nightly Tester Tools will force these extensions to be compatible with the newest version of Firefox.

After installing Nightly Tester Tools, you’ll notice a “Make Compatible” button located in the Add-Ons Window. Click this button:

You must restart your browser for the changes to take effect.

After the browser restarts, check the Add-Ons Window again. Your extensions should now be compatible:

PDF Download is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.

This extension gives you a set of choices in handling a PDF file. After clicking on a .pdf hyperlink, a message box will appear. The developer of this extension created tooltips for when you mouse-over the buttons.

So I’m going to let the tooltips do the talking:

You can also do a bit of configuration with this extension.

Below you will find screenshots of the Options Window:

To access them, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Make sure that you are in the “Main” section.

Then find “Downloads”:

1. First you can choose to have the Download Manager appear when you begin downloading a file. You can also choose to have it close automatically when the download is complete.
2. Next, you can choose where you’d like to download the file onto your computer. By default, files will be downloaded to your Desktop. To change this, click the “Browse” button and choose a new location.
3. Perhaps you don’t want files downloaded to the same place every time. If this is the case, just check the box labeled “Always ask me where to save files.”

Downloads in Tab is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.

Normally, when downloading a file, the Firefox Download Manager will open in a new window. Here is an example below:

However, you may not want a separate window to open.

If this is the case, you have several options. You can try the Download Statusbar extension, or you give the “Downloads in Tab” extension a try.

With the “Downloads in Tab” extension, your Download Manager will open up in a new tab. Instead of opening in a separate window, this new tab will open in your current window:

Let’s take a look at the Options Window:

As you can see, the option to open downloads in a new window is still available. Just check the box labeled “Show the Downloads window when downloading a file.”

You also have the option of not having a downloads window at all. Just uncheck the box labeled “Open tab automatically at start of download.”

If you leave it checked, your downloads will open automatically in a new tab.

Download Statusbar is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.

The Download Statusbar extension takes the information provided by the Firefox Download Manager and presents it in the browser Statusbar (as opposed to in a pop-up window).

Let’s look at an example:

Say you’d like to download OpenOffice. Here is a screenshot of the transfer using Download Statusbar:

In the above screenshot, you’ll notice the name of the file along with two numbers on the right-hand side:

• The top number is the speed of the download in progress (in this example 102.1 KB/sec).
• The bottom number is the amount of time left for the download to complete (in this example 16 min. 38 sec.).

Hovering your mouse over the download will produce a pop-up tooltip that provides even more information:

Right-clicking on the download will give you the following options:

You can even have multiple downloads in progress at the same time. In the example below, we’ve added Paint.NET:

Finally, even though this is a simple and straightforward extension, it does allow for quite a bit of customization. Here are the screenshots of Download Statusbar’s options window:

As you can see, under the “Virus Scan” tab, you can have your Anti-Virus program scan downloads when they are completed….A handy tool!

Let’s say you want to download a software application…For this example, we’ll download OpenOffice.

Let’s go through the information provided by the Download Manager:

In the top-left corner, you’ll see how much (in percentage terms) has already been downloaded to your computer. A green progress bar is provided to show you in visual terms.

Under the progress bar, you’ll see in numerical terms how much has been downloaded, the speed of the download, and how much time remains:

You can also Pause or Cancel the download while it is in progress:

The Download Manager also shows where the file is being downloaded on your computer:

Now let’s add another download. Let’s add Paint.NET.

As you can see below, the Download Manager will keep track of multiple downloads in the same window:

When your downloads are complete, you’re given several options:

• You can Open the file right from the Download Manager window.
• You can Remove the file from the Download Manager window.
• You can click the Clean Up button to removes all files from Download Manager window.

***Note*** Clicking on Remove or Clean Up does not remove the file from your computer.