Don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty useful.
But it's such a narrow-purposed extension.
It works seamlessly. After a while, you might not ever remember you've installed such extension.
User experience wise, it's great! But it's like the worst product to market it.
And because there's no UI, I can't even take a screenshot of the extension. 😅
I built it to solve a problem that I had. But, if you happen to have the same problem and it works for you, it's all worth it.
The problem I had:
When downloading files with the same name, Chrome just appends (1) at the end of the filename and saves it to your download folder.
Then I had to go to my download folder and either try to
or
That feels like something can be improved. So, I looked up chrome API and played around it for a few hours, and built this extension.
This extension prompts you the "save as" dialog when you trying to download a file that has the same name in your local download folder.
Now, when you try to download a file with the same name, you can
without having to download the file first.
And it's also open source:
GitHub link
To install from chrome web store:
Chrome web store link
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Thank you, @Primer! That's why I still made it even it's just a few lines of code - it's solves a real problem.
I'm glad you find it useful too!