Download with Free Download Manager (FDM)

by InBasic

Utilities download-manager file-transfer download-acceleration bittorrent remote-control scheduler web-download browser-integration

Quick Look

Enhance your browsing experience by seamlessly sending download jobs to Free Download Manager (FDM) for advanced features like acceleration and torrent support.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Users who want to utilize the advanced features of Free Download Manager for their downloads directly from their browser.

Key Features

→ Directly send downloads to FDM
→ Offers download acceleration and resumes broken downloads
→ Supports BitTorrent and enhanced audio/video file handling
→ Integrates via context menu and download request observation

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

This extension is largely praised for its ability to integrate with Free Download Manager, though some users encounter initial setup difficulties.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.

What Users Love

✓ Effectively offloads downloads to FDM.
✓ Provides useful FDM features like acceleration and resume.
✓ Simple integration options.

Points to Consider

× Requires separate FDM installation and native client.
× Initial setup can be confusing for some users.

Official Description

From the Developer

Sends your downloading jobs to the Free Download Manager by pausing the built-in download manager

Send your downloading job requests to the well-known Free Download Manager (FDM) to take advantage of the following features:

BitTorrent support
Enhanced audio/video files support
Download acceleration
Resuming broken downloads
Smart file management and powerful scheduler
Adjusting traffic usage
Remote Control
HTML Spider

This extension offers two levels of integration. The simple one is the right-click context menu items for video, audio, and image file types. The second level is an observer for downloading requests that are sent to the built-in download manager. The extension pauses each download when a new request is submitted. Then sends the actual downloadable URL to your Free Download Manager. This mode is more aggressive and can simply toggle on and off from the browser action.

Notes:

For the extension to work you need to have Free Download Manager (FDM) installed; http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
For the extension to be able to communicate with FDM, a small native client is required. This native client can be found at https://github.com/belaviyo/native-client/releases. You will get the instruction on how to install this native client when the extension tries to communicate for the first time.
This extension can extract links from selected text. Use the right-click context menu over selected text to access this tool.

Web Components: This extension uses "notification-view" web component: https://webextension.org/custom-component/notification-view/index.html

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