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Wow, I remember DownThemAll from...2005?

If you had asked me, I would have said with confidence "that no longer exists, modern browsers have had this feature one click away for years". But I suppose the truth is they don't, and I just haven't had a reason to use this in a long time.

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But modern browsers do have this feature, don't they? I can do this on Chrome and Firefox, at least.

Say a website links to 20 images and a dozen mp3s (and other files not in your interest). How would you without an extension like DownThemAll grab these files all at once?

I use DownThemAll on firefox.

The main feature I use it for is queueing multiple downloads, which I don't believe either chrome or firefox offers out of the box.

Highly useful when downloading from archive.org or other sites which block multiple concurrent downloads.

Seems way less suspicious than jdownloader to me.

Exactly what I thought when I saw that too! I had no idea it was still around. It was a godsend back in the day, but now that internet speeds are a lot faster, downloads are more reliable, and browsers have an 80% solution already built into them, I haven't really felt a need for it in many, many years.

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