# GrabLine Connect

> The browser companion for Grabline, the free download manager: right-click download, hover buttons with a quality picker, grab all links or images on a page, and a per-tab list of sniffed streams. All downloading happens in the desktop app.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabline-connect](https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabline-connect)

## Overview

- **ID:** `grabline-connect`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zain
- **Category:** download-management,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 1.29.21
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29
- **First published:** 2026-07-11
- **Size:** 57 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grabline-connect/)
- **Website:** [https://gr33nops.github.io/GrabLine/](https://gr33nops.github.io/GrabLine/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grabline-connect/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grabline-connect/privacy/)

## Description

GrabLine Connect pairs your browser with GrabLine, the free and open-source download manager (AGPL-3.0). The extension is deliberately thin—it detects and delivers, while the desktop app downloads.

• Right-click → "Download with GrabLine" on any link, image, video, or page
• Hover button on videos, audio, and large images
• Per-tab media list: every stream (.m3u8/.mpd) and media file the page loaded
• Download all images on a page into a selection grid
• Optional download takeover (off by default)

On sites the Smart Engine knows (YouTube and 1000+ more), the app opens a quality panel with options from 4K to 144p, MP3/M4A extraction, subtitles, and clip trimming. Everywhere else you get segmented, resumable, multi-connection downloading.

Requires the free GrabLine desktop app (Windows/macOS/Linux): <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/c86dad70490948e72a7f0b65120e5c40c6054e844b7fb4102379eab65d5c2ba3/https%3A//github.com/Gr33nOps/GrabLine" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Gr33nOps/GrabLine</a>. The extension communicates with it using Native Messaging only. No account, no cloud, no telemetry, and no ads.

GrabLine does not bypass DRM or logins.

## Rankings

- #68,402 — Overall
- #94 — connect

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `downloads`
- `cookies`
- `tabs`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`
- `*.youtube.com`
- `*.vimeo.com`
- `player.vimeo.com`
- `*.x.com`
- `*.twitter.com`
- `*.soundcloud.com`
- `*.instagram.com`
- `*.reddit.com`
- `*.dailymotion.com`
- `geo.dailymotion.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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