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good dl acclorator for Firefox?
2005-03-22, 9:53 PM #1
Does anyone know of a good dl acclerater for Firefox that doesn't have spyware or comes with adware bundles.
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2005-03-22, 10:14 PM #2
What the heck is a download acclorator?
2005-03-22, 10:14 PM #3
accelerator, is it really that hard to figure this stuff out people?

Oh, and no I don't know of one
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2005-03-22, 10:42 PM #4
Sorry if I can't read some of the crazy stuff people type.

I'm dyslexic, and sometimes when people type like that it confuses poor Rob's brain.
2005-03-22, 10:49 PM #5
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
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2005-03-23, 4:08 AM #6
Uhh, don't use em? :p

Download accelerators that create multiple connections to one server piss me off. You are basically forcing yourself in, and not allowing as many other people to connect to the same server. This becomes a real problem on overloaded servers.
2005-03-23, 6:11 AM #7
Leechget, but you need the plugin too.
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2005-03-23, 9:05 AM #8
LeechGet is teh best!

Quote:
Download accelerators that create multiple connections to one server piss me off.


Let's not forget that many people such as myself, who are on dialup, need the ability to resume downloads, and so-called download accelerators are the most efficient way of doing this.
2005-03-23, 9:25 AM #9
wget
2005-03-23, 9:38 AM #10
Quote:
Originally posted by Molgrew
wget


fetch > wget
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2005-03-23, 2:02 PM #11
Quote:
Originally posted by Molgrew
wget
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2005-03-23, 2:11 PM #12
except wget isnt a download accelerator...
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2005-03-23, 2:30 PM #13
Quote:
Originally posted by MentatMM
LeechGet is teh best!



Let's not forget that many people such as myself, who are on dialup, need the ability to resume downloads, and so-called download accelerators are the most efficient way of doing this.


This is what DOWNLOAD MANAGERS are for...
2005-03-23, 2:45 PM #14
Quote:
Originally posted by Cool Matty
Download accelerators that create multiple connections to one server piss me off.

Having run servers in the past, I can sympathize. I would stop using them except uhm, I don't give a s***.
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2005-03-23, 2:56 PM #15
Quote:
Originally posted by Malus
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/


That's for IE only, our friend runs Firefox. Like you should. :p

And wget is for creating local, offline copies of entire websites (I think).

2005-03-23, 3:02 PM #16
Quote:
This is what DOWNLOAD MANAGERS are for...


That goes without saying, and is why I posted a link to LeechGet, which is a download manager. The fact is that many "accelerators" are also "managers".
2005-03-23, 3:06 PM #17
I use flashget.

There's a free version that flashes ads, and there is a pay version that is ad-free. (although "registering" only requires a few small registry tweaks ;) )
2005-03-23, 4:04 PM #18
Quote:
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS
I use flashget.

There's a free version that flashes ads, and there is a pay version that is ad-free. (although "registering" only requires a few small registry tweaks ;) )

Surely you are not talking about making proprietary software free through...unsanctioned means on this forum...
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2005-03-23, 9:50 PM #19
Quote:
Originally posted by MentatMM
LeechGet is teh best!



Let's not forget that many people such as myself, who are on dialup, need the ability to resume downloads, and so-called download accelerators are the most efficient way of doing this.


Not all programs do that multiple connections deal. However, just about everything resumes, including Firefox in most cases.
2005-03-24, 3:10 AM #20
Firefox will resume in many cases, correct, but there's nothing more irritating than downloading 300/500 MBs of a file, getting disconnected, and then finding out that Firefox won't resume. Personally, I don't understand why browsers don't have better resuming support. They're decent, but they could be much better.

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