Issue 81388 - More info of download managers
Summary: More info of download managers
Status: CLOSED OBSOLETE
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Product: Infrastructure
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Website general issues (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
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URL: http://download.openoffice.org/index....
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Reported: 2007-09-08 12:19 UTC by the_arioch
Modified: 2014-02-20 21:16 UTC (History)
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Description the_arioch 2007-09-08 12:19:57 UTC
> that enable you to resume downloading
Doesn't pure Firefox/SeaMonkey allow You to (manually) resume download ? i have 
no big experience in those, but it seems to me it can!

> If you use the Firefox web browser
I would like to see there the same paragraph about Opera browser.
In Russia it shares the 1nd place after IE with Mozilla FF and SM (different 
stats gives 2nd place to M or to O - but numbers do differ little).
I think that in the rest of the world it is quite the same.
I can say nothing about Konqueror/Safari, but perhaps someone using them would  
add about them too.


So, i'd put this like following:
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There are several download managers that enable you to resume downloading after 
an interruption which is useful on unreliable connections. 
* If you use the {link:www.mozilla.org "Firefox or SeaMonkey"} web browser, you 
will want to install the {link:http://flashgot.net/ "FlashGot"} extension which 
integrates these download managers with Firefox. 
* If you use the {link:www.opera.com "Opera"} web browser, it already has some 
resuming capability built-in. However if You want yet more comfort in 
downloading (automatic resuming, file integrity checks, number of downloads in 
a queue) You may want to install one of the downloaders and integrate them with 
Opera using {link:http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/index.dml/tag/oGet "oGet"} add-
on. Or You may want download OpenOffice from {link:http://
distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ "BitTorrent links"}, that Opera supports.
Wikipedia has a comprehensive comparison of download managers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don't know if the browser add-ons are proper content for the page about 
download URLs, but if Mozilla+FlashGot is ok, then it is the same about 
Opera+oGet


> See also:
I would like to add one more download manager for Windows.
I think it's worth it and convince you, basing of my own experience. If it is 
just time-eater for You, skip next 2 paragraphs.

For quite a long time (years)i used ReGet - 1st its ad-ware version, then Ad-
Ware became unavailable, and i managed t use regular version in eternal-trial 
way (you may blame me and would be right). And to me other Windows DM's were 
worse, though sometimes i tried them.

Year ago i started to seriously look for free alternative to ReGet. (purchasing 
full version was not an option to me, ReGet development seems to almost freeze 
couple of years ago and it would no more be DM of choice anyway).
I tried wGet, MultiGet, mGet, Orbit... Orbit was the best, but even it was 
buggy comparing to Reget (had fancy features about mukltimedia, yet lacked 
basic features about downloading itself). However for about half-year i used 
Orbit as best free DM i could find.
Then stumbled upon FreeDownloadManager. Personally i dislike such a generic 
names, i feel them as inhumble trick to play "Smith. Main entrance" trick over 
competitors. But one day i decided to give it a try despite of its name.
Month later i deinstalled all other download managers, including ReGet and 
Orbit. Personally i think FDM is a must in any short-list of Windows download 
manaegers.

So i vot to add this line to list of download managers at bottom of the page:

* {link:www.FreeDownloadManager.org "Free Download Manager"} (Windows, open 
source, checksum verification, BitTorrent / Metalink support, malware database)

Thanks to nayone, bothered to read all this through.
Comment 1 lsuarezpotts 2007-09-10 14:14:52 UTC
accepting.
Thanks
Louis
Comment 2 stx123 2007-09-12 18:21:18 UTC
Moving to component website...
Comment 3 Marcus 2014-02-20 21:14:58 UTC
Closing as obsolete.