Automatically unzip/untar downloaded files?

Automatically unzip/untar downloaded files? Is there a way to automatically unzip/untar everything I download? Preferably without installing anything (I already have enough programs running all the time) and something that works with all browsers.
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Guest [Entry]

"I think this is a horrible idea, it screams ""security risk"" to me.

Now the disclaimer is out of the way;

Why not just run a scheduled task over your downloads directory? once every 5 minutes run a shell script that essentially:

unzips all the archives (unzip *.zip)

deletes them (rm -f *.zip)"

Guest [Entry]

The only way I can think of doing this would be to put all of the zip files in a particular location and have a program monitor the location and unzip whatever it finds. However personally I don't find unzipping things manually that stressful :-)