Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before. FDM is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. Also this software product is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer and scheduler. FDM can resume broken downloads. So you needn't start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted. Also this program warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money. FDM allows adjusting traffic usage. So it provides you with an opportunity to browse web pages much faster if you use a low connection speed.
Change log:
[+] Uploads: easy way to share your files.
[+] Portable mode
[+] Bittorrent protocol support
[+] Flash video downloads (e.g. from youtube.com site)
[+] Audio/video files converter
[+] Metalink support
[+] Ability to remember the last used folder for storing downloads
Change log:
[+] Uploads: easy way to share your files.
[+] Portable mode
[+] Bittorrent protocol support
[+] Flash video downloads (e.g. from youtube.com site)
[+] Audio/video files converter
[+] Metalink support
[+] Ability to remember the last used folder for storing downloads
[+] Macroses for specifying the output folder for downloads
[+] Site Explorer: Progress of building of the list of files
[+] Option to disable notifications for batch downloads
[+] Ability to specify the list of sites that should not be monitored
[+] Automatic integrity check of downloaded file
[+] Take proxy settings from Firefox browser
[+] Sub groups
[+] "Grant all bandwidth for this download" feature
[+] Ability to change the folder for storing FDM's data files.
[+] Some small improvements and changes
[*] Multilanguage support: you may choose most suitable interface language at the installation.
[*] Speedup of work with the large lists of downloads
[*] Keep the video aspect ratio in media preview
[*] Interface improvements
[-] Site Explorer: crash if some network error occurs while building the list of files
[-] Senseless loop, if zip preview failed
[-] Zip preview did not work for sites that allow 1 connection per ip only
[-] Downloaded file was launched before performing the virus check
[-] Work with FTP ASCII mode bug fixed
[-] Scheduler: when scheduling a download to start "Every :" it will show "0 days" instead of hours or minutes.
[-] Failed to download if there was '%' symbol in the FTP url.
[-] Some HTTP downloads did not work
[-] General bug fixes
Download: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 700 freeware
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
Link: Home Page
call it 'The Download Manager' or 'Download Manager'
love this anyway.
tried it once, been using it ever since.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:08 am
Q: What's the newest stable version and build of FDM?
A: Free Download Manager version 2.1 build 494, available from Here. Using Help -> Check for update now inside FDM will not alert you of new builds, only major/minor version updates. Please make sure you are using the latest version before reporting problems, in case your issue has already been solved.
We are pleased to announce that the new 2.1 version of Free Download Manager has been released.
What's new in version 2.1 build 493:
[+] Opinions
[+] Caching of disk write operations
[+] Option to restart downloading when speed is too low
[+] Scheduler: restrain all downloads
[+] Interface improvements
[+] Option to disable modification of Internet Explorer's user-agent string
[+] rapidshare.de is supported now
[*] Improved integration with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers
[*] The moving download to the new group will move its file also
[-] Downloads was launched automatically if added via Drop box even if not needed
[-] Restart more than one downloads worked incorrectly sometimes
[-] Bug of work with frames in HTML Spider
[-] Some general bugfixes
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Q: What's the newest BETA version and build of FDM?
A: FDM 2.3 BETA 2 (build 623).
Download 2.3 BETA
Features in FDM 2.3 BETA
Changes in this version:
<< **read above** >>
FAQ
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Q: Does FDM support Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2? Vista?
A: Yes. Yes.
Q: Is there a 4 gigabyte file size download limit?
A: Not in FDM, but your hard drive may be formatted as FAT32. NTFS does not have this limit.
Q: What features will the next version of FDM have?
A: It can be used as a portable version of a flash drive, restrict FDM usage by domain name, and Metalink support. Portable version and BitTorrent and Metalink support are available in FDM 2.3 BETA.
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Last edited by PermaSt0ne on 14 Aug 2007 - 18:06
I know but the Softpedia link point to 2.5 build 688:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9118/sshot1cu2.png
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