155596 - download manager tab

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Adam Tomlinson]

How about adding a tab for the download manager? I'm sure this wouldn't be hard
to implement and would be useful and make the download manager feel more part of
the browser.

Comment 1

[Adam Tomlinson]

Attachment: very quick mock up

mock-up to show how it would work

Comment 2

[Jay Knight]

A sidebar tab might be a little more convenient.  This is a really good idea!

Comment 3

[Adam Tomlinson]

bug 75359 is related to that, both ideas are good imo.

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

try this url: 
chrome://communicator/content/downloadmanager/downloadmanager.xul

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

confirming RFE.  Load that chrome:// url in a tab at your own risk, though...
weird things could happen.

Comment 6

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 158708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

I'm not sure if the SeaMonkey team will pick this up, but there's an add-on for Firefox 4 and SeaMonkey 2.1 that does this: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/256189/

Comment 9

[Philip Chee]

Also:
Download Manager Tweak
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/256/
Custom Download Manager:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/6945/
Downloads in Tab:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/4526/

Comment 10

[Sonny Piers [:sonny]]

Tabbed Download Manager
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tabbed-download-manager/

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

Well, the one I liked to in comment #8 bases heavily on the current SeaMonkey download manager - but the project can use whatever it wants as long as the licenses fit.

Comment 12

[t8av]

Very relevant: 
See my suggestion about "always-visible tabs.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=861498