How to change default downloader on Firefox

Question

I want to change default downloader of Firefox because it is very slow. I want to set uGet. I installed uGet downloader, but when I click some download link it start with Firefox's own downloader. What do I have to do?

Solution

The following info is outdated, please see "Update" at the bottom

You may use the "uGet Integration" extension by Gobinath to replace the default download manager by uGet.

This extension requires "uGet Chrome Wrapper" package to be installed. To install the package from Gobinath's PPA run the following commands first:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slgobinath/uget-chrome-wrapper
sudo apt update
sudo apt install uget-chrome-wrapper

Then install the extension from here. Once it is installed, click on the uGet icon and toggle on "Interrupt downloads":

(screenshot source: uGet Integration's homepage at addons.mozilla.org)

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Update:

In 2018, uget-chrome-wrapper has been adopted by uGet team as an official add-on and renamed uget-integrator and so uget-chrome-wrapper is discontinued. Therefore, uninstall uget-chrome-wrapper and install uget-integrator.

To remove uget-chrome-wrapper, run

sudo apt remove uget-chrome-wrapper

To remove Gobinath's old PPA, run

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:slgobinath/uget-chrome-wrapper
sudo apt update

Then add the new PPA for uGet Team by running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:uget-team/ppa
sudo apt update

Finally, install uget-integrator by running

sudo apt install uget-integrator

Also update the Firefox add-on to version 2.1.2 or later.

Comments

[pomsky]

DownloadThemAll! is not compatible with the recent versions of Firefox (57+).

[CatChMeIfUCan]

@pomsky if you install the former version of Firefox and install dTa then update the firefox itself you still have dTa I got 58.0.2 and no issues