DownThemAll!
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
Developing
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Setting_up_extension_development_environment Just clone the repository and use an extension proxy file. No additional build step required.
- Pull requests welcome. By submitting code you agree to license it under MPL v2 unless explicitly specified otherwise.
- Please stick to the general coding style.
- Please also always add unit tests for all new js modules and new module functions.
- Unit tests for UI (overlays) aren't required at the moment, but welcome. There is currently no infrastructure to run those, though.
Building an XPI
See make.py.
Important bits of code
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modules/glue.jsm- This is basically the main module, also specifying the general environment for all modules and window scopes. -
modules/main.js- General setup. -
modules/loaders/- "overlay" scripts. Different to traditional Firefox add-ons, DownThemAll! does not use real overlays and overlay scripts, but kind of simulates overlays via modules. -
chrome/content/- UI. Right now, due to historical reasons and some too-tight coupling the UI JS also contains some of the important data structures such asQueueItem(representing a single queued download) -
Please note that being restartless requires code to clean up after itself, i.e. if you modify something global you need to reverse the modifications when the add-on is unloaded. See
unload()andunloadWindow()(in glue.jsm and/or support/overlays.js) -
Please make use of the niceties Firefox JS (ES6) and of the global helpers from glue.jsm, in particular:
for ofloops- Sets and (weak) maps
- generators
- comprehensions and destructoring assignment
Object.freeze(),Object.defineProperties(), etc.log()lazy()/lazyProto()ServicesandInstances