Add the Lynx extension to Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc

Install

1. Open Lynx and go to Settings › Browser.
2. Under Your browsers, choose Add to Chrome (or Brave, Edge, Arc).
3. Your browser opens the Lynx extension’s page in the Chrome Web Store. Click Add to Chrome (or Brave, Edge, Arc), then Add extension.
4. The extension asks once: Let Lynx take your downloads? Click Turn On.

If your browser was closed, Lynx opens it and the browser asks instead. Click Enable extension.

The extension connects to Lynx automatically. When it’s connected, Settings › Browser shows Connected.

Versions for Firefox and Safari are coming.

Use it

• On a page with a video, a small pill appears over the player: Download · 1080p. Click it to send the video to Lynx. The ⋯ menu has other qualities, audio only and Clip. On Lynx Basic the pill downloads up to 1080p and each video counts toward the 10 a day; Clip and higher qualities are part of Pro. Catching file downloads works on every plan.
• Large file downloads go to Lynx automatically. Lynx splits them into parts and resumes them if the connection drops. The popup shows the file and offers Download in Browser Instead if you want to keep it in the browser. Small files always stay in the browser.
• Lynx doesn’t need to be open. The extension starts it in the background.

Turn features off

Click the Lynx icon in the toolbar. At the bottom of the popup, you can hide the pill or stop sending downloads from that browser to Lynx.