Chris Linfoot | Firefox download manager?

Tuesday, 6. May 2008

Firefox download manager?

Can anyone recommend a good (restartable) download manager for Firefox? I have Flashgot but I'd like a download manager that works well with it, instead of Flashgot's built in download manager.

Thanks.

Category: Software
Technorati: Flashgot Firefox Download+Manager

Comments :

1. Frank Docherty06/05/2008 10:04:27
Homepage: http://www.dominogeek.co.uk

I use the "Download Statusbar" extension to view and manage my downloads within FF. It works really well, and the downloads are pausable/restartable in most cases. Linkage - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26

2. jesc06/05/2008 11:23:04

i use "Free download manager"

it is fine with firefox and ie, i use the "FDM Lite" the full version (it's free too) have torrent client included.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm

3. Thomas Bahn06/05/2008 12:28:29
Homepage: http://www.assono.de/blog

I use the Free Download Manager, too. Full version, but torrent disabled (normally, but I can enable it for some special downloads). It also comes with a Firefox plugin.

4. Charles Robinson06/05/2008 13:58:03
Homepage: http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com

I haven't used a download manager in about a year, but when I did it was FlashGet: http://www.flashget.com/en/download.htm. It worked very well with FlashGot and was unobtrusive. The only problem I ever had was sometimes one of the pieces of the file would timeout because the server didn't allow multiple connections from the same host. I assume that would be an issue for any download manager.

I'm assuming you know about patching the Windows XP SP2 TCP/IP connection limit "feature", too: http://www.lvllord.de/

5. Duncan Bradley06/05/2008 15:56:45

I use DownThemAll! which is a true firefox addin, and works extremely well. It also has a great feature which allows you to download all the links of a particular type on the page & more

6. Jerry Carter06/05/2008 17:18:10
Homepage: http://datatribesoftwerks.com

I second DownloadThemAll!, it's a great add in with some very nice UI features and doubles as a download accelerator. A must for getting things downloaded a bit faster and having better control over your downloads - includes very nice pause and resume management and list management.

7. Dave Harris07/05/2008 09:35:41
Homepage: http://www.wavysworld.com

I'd second DownThemAll! Extremely fast (up to ten streams, I think) and very resilient so far.
http://www.downthemall.net/