Download Box

Replace Chrome's downloads shelf with a popup menu to manage your downloads.

What is Download Box?

'Download Box' is a Chrome extension designed to streamline your downloads management. It replaces Chrome's downloads shelf with an easy-to-navigate popup in the top bar. Through this extension, users can experience an array of features including pagination, in-folder view, URL copying, failed download retries, download size displaying, pause/resume downloads option, and alternative light and dark themes. The extension is open-source, with a comprehensive record of updates found on the linked GitHub page.

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By: Matthew Brown

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.50 (6)

Version: 1.3.0 (Last updated: 2022-08-24)

Creation date: 2022-02-02

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

downloads
downloads.open
downloads.shelf

Size: 112.64K

Email: ma*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 27816 ▼ 108

Other rankings

#1376 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 11 #76 in download keyword 74 ▲ 3

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Extension summary

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Get rid of Chrome's downloads shelf at the bottom of your screen and replace it with a nice popup in the top bar.

Features include:

Pagination
Show-in-folder button
Copy the URL a file came from
Retry failed downloads
File-size and estimated time remaining
Pause in-progress downloads (right click)
Dark theme and Light theme, following system preference
Open source

A full changelog for any updates can be found here: https://github.com/matthew-e-brown/download-box/releases

User reviews

Good and useful and has a dark mode, but unfortunately doesn't show the file date for the completed downloads (yet).

Rainbow Warrior Princess, 2024-07-16

Excellent, minimal extension. Good UI, and works well. Finally Chrome can behave like a normal browser for downloads.

Scott Ellis, 2023-02-18

Great addon! Really love it. But it would be really nice if you could make some improvements: Dynamic size or selectable size of the displayed downloads per page. Currently there are only 5 downloads per page which I cannot change because there are no options. Second thing is that there is a little bug with the progress bar and missing symbolic when downloading. The progressbar often stucks at the beginning after downloading something. Only after clicking on the addon icon the progress bar works. And a good improvement would be to do some animation so I know better that a file has started downloading.