• How To Make Internet Download Manager Work With Firefox

FlashGot, the best Firefox download manager integration, has been honored in the May 2006 issue of PC World, the most widely-read computer or business magazine, as one of the ' 101 Fabulous Freebies' 'Each download or service on the list impressed the editors with its functionality and usability,” said Harry McCracken, VP/editor in chief of PC World. 'These are some of the most well-crafted services available – congratulations to FlashGot!'

Are you tired of 'saving as.' One by one all those movies, music files, pictures, programs and so on? Are you sick of getting them sooo slowly? Are you afraid of losing them in the middle of download if you get disconnected or close your browser, being forced to repeat all that tedious work?

How To Make Internet Download Manager Work With Firefox

Well, you need a. My download manager doesn't work with Firefox! They say it does, but where is my Download All menu? How can I handle the tons of mp3, mpeg, jpg files that I want to download? Well, you definitely need. FlashGot is the free add-on for and, meant to handle single and massive ('all' and 'selection') downloads with several external Download Managers.

for Windows (, Download Accelerator Plus, GigaGet, NetAnts, Orbit, Thunder (Chinese only popular product), and Ukrainian Russian language only ),. for Linux / FreeBSD / other Unix-like OSes (, ). Many Windows-only download manager are supported on Linux through!. for Mac OS X (, and.). Motivation Since I switched from MS Internet Explorer to a serious browser, I've had only one regret: I've been missing the ability to handle 'massive downloads' through a multithreaded, file splitting download manager. In IE there was a 'Download all with MyNice DownloadManager' menu item, which delivered every link on a web page to the download manager, ready to be choosen and downloaded in batch.

There was nothing like this on Mozilla/ Firefox, so I decided to build my solution with my own hands. And it works pretty well (at least for me). Now, after many releases, FlashGot is probably the most advanced form of browser integration for download managers, often better than the native one provided for IE,:.

a 'FlashGot selection' command to selectively download items you highlight on the page (even pure textual links!). a command, helping you to auto-generate complete media gallery from partial ones to download at once all the contents in a serie. Convenient shortcuts and hooks for single downloads, like Alt+Click on a link and automatic interception of unknown content types, giving you the chance to override the default download manager when it is about to start. (more in the page).