# Download Links

> This add-on autodetects direct links of audio, video, images, text, zip files in the webpage and offers great deal of additional customisation before download. Any issues, suggestions reach out to developer. It's free for general public use.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/download-links](https://chrome-stats.com/d/download-links)

## Overview

- **ID:** `download-links`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Prabhu
- **Category:** download-management,photos-music-videos,other
- **Daily users:** 1,728
- **Weekly downloads:** 41
- **Rating:** 3.86 / 5 (97 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-01-18
- **Size:** 912 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/download-links/)

## Description

**Download Links** is a versatile Firefox extension that automatically detects direct download links for various media types including audio, video, images, text, PDFs, and compressed files on any webpage. It offers extensive customization options such as filtering files by type, organizing downloads into directories, renaming files per type, creating custom tags, and previewing images and text before downloading. The downloaded files are saved directly to the Firefox download folder, ensuring easy access and management.

With a user-friendly interface and continuous feature enhancements, Download Links simplifies bulk media downloading while giving users control over file types and download behaviors. Future updates plan to add features like parallel download limits, file size display, pause/cancel downloads, clipboard interaction, and advanced filtering. This extension is free for public use, making it an excellent tool for efficient media retrieval from web pages.

## Rankings

- #2,366 — Overall
- #204 — Download Management
- #5 — broken links
- #9 — links
- #65 — download
- #90 — reach

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `downloads`
- `downloads.open`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows management of download operations but generally doesn't severely affect security unless misused.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise the add-on for fast bulk downloads and good performance on some sites (YouTube, FTP). The main recurring complaints are inconsistent site support and failures on streaming pages; UI/display problems (small or missing popups, needs lots of space); and file-handling bugs (save-path/destination confusion, filename/charset issues, and crashes on duplicate names). Usability and settings are also frequently criticized.

### Pros

- Efficient bulk downloading — saves time when grabbing many files (PDFs, ringtones, large batches).
- Works well on certain sites (several users report success with YouTube and FTP pages).
- Handles large batches of files and reduces one-by-one downloading effort.

### Cons

- Inconsistent site support — fails on many pages and does not handle streaming media reliably.
- UI/display problems — popup can be too small, clipped or require large space; some users report the popup not appearing on Mac.
- File-handling and save-location bugs — confusing save-path errors, inability to reliably change destination, issues with filenames (multiple periods), non‑ASCII characters, and crashes on duplicate filenames.
- Usability problems — settings can be cryptic or read-only and the add-on is not always intuitive.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/download-links)