Downloader similar to Kget for Firefox

[Kam Leo]

On 3/14/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >On Wednesday 14 March 2007 22:49, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> >> Em Qua 14 Mar 2007, Nigel Henry escreveu:
> >> > KDE's Konquerors default downloader is terrible. You lose the
> >> > Internet connection, or have a power out, and you've lost the
> >> > download. Kget doesn't have these problems. I can cut the
> >> > connection to the Internet, then reconnect, and Kget will continue
> >> > with the download where it left off. Same goes if I get a power
> >> > outage.
> >> >
> >> > With Firefox you can pause the download, as long as you still have
> >> > an Internet connection, then resume it, but if you lose your
> >> > Internet connection, or suffer a power outage you lose all the
> >> > download with no way to resume.
> >> >
> >> > I'm on dialup, so losing 120MB of a 121MB download is not funny.
> >> > And having to start from scratch is annoying to say the least.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone know of any program similar to Kget that will work with
> >> > Firefox?
> >>
> >> You may use Kget itself. Install the Flashgot extension for Firefox
> >> and it will offer you the option to choose any installed download
> >> manager (including kget) when downloading a file.
> >>
> >> []'s
> >> Marcelo
> >
> >Job done. Many thanks Marcelo. Flashgot has done it. I've just cut the
> >Internet connection from a download on firefox, reconnected, and it's
> > just resumed as it does with Kget and Konqueror.
> >
> >Nigel.
>
> Mmm, well gee now, using smart --gui, neither of those two packages are
> available, and extras is enabled.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>

It's a Mozilla add-on. Get it from: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/220

> Cheers, Gene