Free Download Manager

Free Download Manager ( FDM short ) is a free download manager for popular Windows platforms, including their 64- bit versions.

Once developed as proprietary software, it has been marketed since version 2.5 under the GNU General Public License ( GPL).

Functions

Free Download Manager enables you to:

  • HTTP, HTTPS and FTP downloads are supported.
  • Download continuation is possible (even with changed IP address ) to intermittent internet connection, if the server allows it, everything else needs to be loaded again from the beginning
  • BitTorrent support
  • Accelerating the speed by simultaneous downloads ( parallel threads ) from various sources (mirrors) or different sections of a file
  • Flash video from some video portals ( eg YouTube, MyVideo, etc. ) can be stored and converted to another format
  • A Scheduler allows assigning individual downloads for specific times Download
  • With the " HTML Spider" can automate entire websites to be downloaded
  • Can use the integrated " websites Explorer" This will primarily examine FTP sites
  • A faded, freely movable and transparent arrow symbol (called " Floating Window") makes it convenient to add new downloads drag and drop, the main window can remain closed
  • Individual control possibility of the band widths and velocities of individual downloads
  • Lists of processed downloading activity can be displayed
  • Upload files and folders
  • After completion of the task execution can shut down either the program or the computer will ( Shutdown )

Integration

FDM can "watch" the following Web browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox ( only temporarily, because the update intervals of Firefox are too small to regularly adjust FDM)
  • Netscape Navigator
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • SeaMonkey
  • Windows Internet Explorer

This means that when a file download in these browsers do not download the integrated solution is activated, but the FDM takes care of this. This can be turned off for small files ( maximum size of user-determined ).

Others

The Free Download Manager you can download version that contains only the essential parts of the program in which the auxiliary functions can be installed individually by means of extensions in a smaller "Light". In addition, you can put him in a portable mode so use without installing it on other people's computers.

Reviews were, among others, in 2006 in the magazine PC World, published in c't and in 2008 in the computer image.

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