Comments on: The Best Free File Download Managers for Windows

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:17:22 +0000

I think Orbit Downloader integrates well with Chrome, but I’m not sure. I’m on linux now.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:27:39 +0000

I use both FDM and FlashGet, but is there any way to integrate any download managers with Chrome, or at least any download managers that are compatible with Chrome, or even support Chrome?

By: Ade

Ade — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:27:05 +0000

When you have Flashget insatlled and you run XoftSpySE you get a whole heap of severe high risk warnings with it. This even happens when you remove it from progarmmes. I found this out a month after I thought I had removed everything. I would never have known if didn’t have this programme. I will try Orbit next as people say a lot of good things about it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:56:11 +0000

You’re joking?

Scroll up.

By: Rinkesh

Rinkesh — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:12:08 +0000

Pls suggest me good download manager ?

By: WolvenSpectre

WolvenSpectre — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:40:57 +0000

First, Net Transfer is Trialware not Freeware. It was free several years ago, and had amazing download speeds when set right, but it was too aggressive and several server management packages started to IP block anybody who used it at a busy time of day. After that they had to be less aggressive with the functionality and at the same time made the software for pay.

I have been using FDM with Opera since before 9. The plugin really is not as good as it should be, and I suggest three things;

1) go into your preferences for FDM, and do NOT check the Opera Integration under monitoring. Instead make sure you have the clipboard monitoring checked. This way if you want a file downloaded you right click on the link and choose “copy link”. The advantage of doing it this way is there are no blank tabs opened for the downloads. BTW Opera… Fix that already!

2) Get “Oget” and install it. This will modify your download preferences, which is a little difficult for the more armature user, so that most of your common download file extensions are set to download with FDM. It never sets it up the way I like and I am sure that it will miss something you want too. If you want to use it though, you can use the clipboard monitoring setting in FDM to get the ones it misses.

3) Modify the downloads preferences yourself as you need them. Make sure the FDM plugin is off at the bottom of the settings, then change the radio button settings to “Open with other application” and point it to the FDM.EXE file in your program files, then check the box underneath that says pass URL to application. Do this for every file type you want to download. Just remember in some certain cases Opera will override this and make you download it using Opera’s file manager. If it is a large file you want to use FDM for, stop it in the Transfers Tab and at the bottom of the screen you can copy the path that it is downloading from. Put this in FDM and it should work.

By: Simon Slangen

Simon Slangen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:50:51 +0000

Slightly, perhaps, but not much.

By: mchlbk

mchlbk — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:43:55 +0000

Ok, totally new to download managers, please excuse me for asking what might be a pretty stupid q:

Im using Firefox 3 with DownThemAll. Can a download manager improve the download speed even further?

By: Simon Slangen

Simon Slangen — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:24:42 +0000

-iGetter -CocoaWget -Folx Downloader

By: Pika

Pika — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:15:58 +0000

Are there any good freeware dlmanagers/fire fox addons for mac’s out there?