Integrated Download Manager

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Mon Aug 9 09:08:54 UTC 2004


nicu wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
> 
>> Wondering if anyone knows of a good INTEGRATED download manager for
>> Redhat/Fedora? I found a good one called "WebDownloader for X", but it
>> doesn't seem to have any browser intregration, at least with Mozilla. It
>> has clipboard integration, which is close, but I'm looking for one that
>> will intercept download requests. Even better, I would like to have the
>> option to quickly download multiple links from the same page, such as a
>> download all. Reget on Windows has a feature like this. Right click and
>> select Download All.
>> "WebDownloader for X" seems to do everything else I want, download
>> queue, multiple downloads, resume, login functionality, etc. Just
>> missing integration. 
> 
> 
> i think your best bet is to use a Mozilla extension like DownloadWith 
> (http://downloadwith.mozdev.org/) in order to integrate a download 
> manager, and your best option as download manager is indeed "Downloader 
> for X"
> 
> 

There is another one:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/leech

Which is not too bad except that it uses a blocking call: browser 
freezes while it processes the downloads ....

Serge





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