How do I stop Firefox DownloadHelper plugin from downloading?

[digitall]

After an unsuccessful Google search for an answer I thought I'd pose this question for the erudite experts here.

Having just installed DownloadHelper, a Firefox plugin, which enables the saving of, for example, Youtube videos to one's computer, I had the annoying experience of not being able to cancel an unwanted download (which I did initiate the saving of, using the plugin).

On Youtube I found an excerpt of Mendelsshon's Octet and used the above plugin to download it to my computer but I soon realised the music was badly recorded so wanted to stop the download. I found no obvious way of doing so. I closed FF, deleted the partial download from My Music and opened firefox again. All seemed well but later a pop-up announced my download (20MB) was complete! I had not revisited the Youtube site so thought I was safe.

With a fairly fast broadband connection and not having unlimited downloads with my ISP account I would like to avoid this happening again. Does anyone know how I can cancel such a download? Thanks.

 

[ericN2]

After an unsuccessful Google search for an answer I thought I'd pose this question for the erudite experts here.

Having just installed DownloadHelper, a Firefox plugin, which enables the saving of, for example, Youtube videos to one's computer, I had the annoying experience of not being able to cancel an unwanted download (which I did initiate the saving of, using the plugin).

On Youtube I found an excerpt of Mendelsshon's Octet and used the above plugin to download it to my computer but I soon realised the music was badly recorded so wanted to stop the download. I found no obvious way of doing so. I closed FF, deleted the partial download from My Music and opened firefox again. All seemed well but later a pop-up announced my download (20MB) was complete! I had not revisited the Youtube site so thought I was safe.

With a fairly fast broadband connection and not having unlimited downloads with my ISP account I would like to avoid this happening again. Does anyone know how I can cancel such a download? Thanks.

Usually , with most if not all FF Add-ons such as this one , if you open a Browser window and go to top Menu-Tools-Add-ons it will list all the Add-ons you actually have in use. Find the one that is giving you trouble - click on the line to highlight it - and just click on 'Uninstall' and follow-it through. Very little to do before it is uninstalled .. but you have to close the Browser then re-open . re-check the Add-ons list and make sure it is gone.

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eric-UK

 

[digitall]

Thanks for your help, but I am happy to keep the plugin. However, I think I have found the solution. I'd clicked the little x to close the download, thinking that would stop it but looking again there is a little cancel button which I hope works. I'll try it next time. Clearly just closing the download window doesn't cancel it.

 

[ericN2]

Thanks for your help, but I am happy to keep the plugin. However, I think I have found the solution. I'd clicked the little x to close the download, thinking that would stop it but looking again there is a little cancel button which I hope works. I'll try it next time.

Clearly just closing the download window doesn't cancel it.

Oh no .. that doesn't work at all. It just does as it says .. closes the window.

But on Add-ons page you CAN just Disable it if you want to keep it on .. that's no problem.

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eric-UK

 

[digitall]

Thanks, I'll do that if necessary.

 

[Jim Engel]

Just use the task manager to end the FireFox session.

Right click on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

Click on Task Manager.

Click on the Firefox application.

Click on "End Task"

 

[digitall]

Thanks Jim, but the download continued with Firefox closed. I think the download continues independently of FF.

 

[Bernd Taeger]

Thanks for your help, but I am happy to keep the plugin. However, I think I have found the solution. I'd clicked the little x to close the download, thinking that would stop it but looking again there is a little cancel button which I hope works. I'll try it next time. Clearly just closing the download window doesn't cancel it.

Yes, the little x is the cancel button in the Downloads dialog box. It cancels the download. (Tools > Downloads) or Ctrl + J
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Bernd Taeger

 

[digitall]

Thanks for that, at the time I just closed the window but now realise how simple it would have been.

 

[Jim Engel]

If you can not see the application running in the Task Manager,
click on the Processes tab, something has to be running.

Look at the CPU column, the one with the highest number
is probably the one you want to kill.

If you get the wrong one, you my need to restart, but that
would not be the end of the world and you would know which
one to kill next time.

 

[Sean Nelson]

If you can not see the application running in the Task Manager,
click on the Processes tab, something has to be running.

Look at the CPU column, the one with the highest number
is probably the one you want to kill.

In this case, the OP's problem was that his download didn't stop, not that something was hogging his system. The download would have been throttled by the speed of his Internet connection, so it seems to me that it's questionable as to whether it would have consumed the most CPU time.

In any case, since he was using Firefox for the download, it would have been a simple matter of sorting by name and looking for the task called "Firefox".