Nice Downloads!

A lightweight & efficient extension of Chrome’s Download Manager.

What is Nice Downloads!?

Nice Downloads! is an elegantly designed Chrome extension that enhances your downloading experience. It smartly manages your downloads by auto-displaying and hiding Chrome's download shelf when initiating and completing downloads, and offers handy alerts. Further, it incorporates a unique toolbar button providing instant access to the downloads screen while updating you about active downloads with color changes of the icon. If a download disrupts, the shelf stays open for your attention. What's more, it doesn't contain a persistent background process and has minimal permissions for unobtrusive operation.

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By: Ben Cheshire

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 3.73 (15)

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2016-04-04)

Creation date: 2016-04-03

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

downloads
downloads.shelf
notifications
downloads.open

Size: 8.58K

Email: be*****@benchesh.com

Ranking

# 25930 ▼ 101

Other rankings

#2129 in Accessibility ▲ 5 #173 in download keyword 74 ▲ 4

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Nice Downloads! makes downloading on Chrome pretty nice.

It automatically shows and hides Chrome's download shelf when starting a new download, and notifies you when one completes.

It also features a toolbar button that will popup the downloads screen, and the icon changes colour when you have active downloads.

If a download is interrupted by Chrome, the shelf will remain open until you interact with it.

This extension does not contain a persistent background process, and has minimal permissions! That's nice, isn't it?

User reviews

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Pros

Works well without bugs or delays.
Nice, small extension that does its job effectively.
Users appreciate the functionality of the extension.
Highly rated and recommended by users.

Cons

Not compatible with the new version.
Invasive notification duration (6-7 seconds).
Lack of options to customize notifications and shelf behavior.

Most mentioned

Incompatibility with the new version.
Desire for customizable notification duration.
Request for additional features like tabbed download lists and better shelf management.