I already said there is. I am actually using it now. But sometime, it still can't capture the download and firefox's save as dialog pops up. For xthunder addon, it adds itself to the firefox save as dialog, when firefox's save as dialog pops up, you can click xthunder button and let your download manager to take over. It even has a drop down menus in the "save as" dialog" so you can choose which download manager you want to use for this particular download.
Chrome and Opera also use web extension (add-ons) and have been doing so for years. Firefox is just now catching up and it is not their fault that developers are being lazy in updating their add-ons since they were all given 1 year's advance notice to update their add-ons. There is contest here on MDL were you can win a free copy of Ant Download Manager https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...nt-download-manager-20-x-1-year-licenses.7524 and it seems to work just fine. They also have a free version so even if you do not win the contest, you can still have a good download manager to use. cc: @whizkidraj
Look like Chrome? No. I am using both the beta (57) and the nightly release (58), as well as I have a trunk release (59) and Firefox still looks like Firefox. I have seen the concept build of v60 (more code than browser) and the display does not make it look like Chrome.
All browsers will use available ram if you have the resources for it. Unless you do not have the resources in which case they default to other means (pagefile or temp files for example). It sounds like your problem is add-on related since I cannot confirm your claim. Further, if this was really a problem the bug tracker would be reporting this and we would be seeing people complain about this everywhere (folks, after all, like to keep their privacy and are not going to keep silent about such a matter). I would check what you have installed and if you cannot track it down, I would suggest you completely uninstall Firefox and then attempt a fresh install.
There are alternatives. IDM is the one with the problem. https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/firefox-is-changing.74942/page-9#post-1380905
I have run a test of my own and as you can see in my screenshot, I originally started out with no such files. Spoiler: test 1 The few files that are made are made from the add-ons. As seen in this screenshot (this file is made from blocking content with uBlock) Spoiler: test 2 You would be wrong to assume you have no add-ons since Firefox is bundled with Pocket and the screenshot add-on now by default. When viewing the other files from a clean install (with presumably no additional add-ons), this is where those files come into play. Looking into the files, there is no cache or cookies, which is what you seem to be worried about. I decided to compare Google Chrome a Virtual PC and it too makes such files.
God666, i can't wait to see FF 57+ and again really thankyou, i have been testing FF for 1 week or two and damn, it changed my whole browsing experience,
If the latest version is not on their website, where do you obtain it? Because that is where folks have been obtaining their copy of IDM and all the add-ons included. The last updated copy I received was directly from their website, today.
I think @Daz would be better at explaining how the private browser works. But I can assure you @vuze4u that there is nothing wrong with Firefox as Chrome and Opera have the same behavior (or similar). You're not losing any security or privacy using Firefox. More so, Firefox is open source, and folks have been reviewing the code endlessly for 15 years (Initial released September 23, 2002; 15 years ago). Again, if there was an issue, folks would be screaming about it, and you would be reading about such an issue everywhere.
I have been using Vivaldi for some time, which uses chrome render engine. Under Chrome there is no such good add on just like xthunder. I saw some comments that the reason there is no add on like xthunder is because web extension is not allowed to directly contact files on the hard drive. I did see some web extensions ask you to install a client software: ==================== To be able to pass download links to IDM, you need to install a minimal native client application. This application is a bridge between browser and operating system. ==================== But haven't try that yet as the add on is very new.
I always get an automatic popup, reminding me every time. I had the same problem like you before and IDM (they have great support!) told me to add IDM to the whitelists of my pop upblockers!
I think I will stick with Ant Download Manager. It seems to use fewer resources at boot-time and loads quicker.
Let me try this ant download manager, IDM proves to be the best so far but I am always open to new things.
Why you guys don't use the Download Manager built in the browser and need an additional external one?