FlashGot is a free and open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 Mozilla

Mozilla

Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....

 extension meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external download manager

Download manager

A download manager is a computer program dedicated to the task of downloading possibly unrelated stand-alone files from the Internet for storage...

s.

Metalink support

New versions support Metalink

Metalink

Metalink is a cross-platform and cross-application Internet standard/framework/file format for programs that download, including download managers, BitTorrent clients, Web browsers, FTP clients, and P2P programs...

 for sending Mirror and checksum information to supported Download Managers for faster verified downloads.

Supported download managers

If a download manager is not in the list below, but it supports command line parameters, you can Add it, providing its executable path and an arguments template. An example is wget

Wget

GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get...

.

Microsoft Windows

• BitComet
  BitComet
  BitComet is a cross-protocol BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP client written in C++ for Microsoft Windows and available in 52 different languages. Its first public release was version 0.28...
  
  
• cURL
  CURL
  cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL...
  
  
• Download Accelerator Plus
  Download Accelerator Plus
  Download Accelerator Plus is a download manager for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It uses multipart download to increase speeds, creating multiple connections of different file segments to speed up downloads. Download Accelerator Plus works by splitting files into smaller pieces and...
  
  
• DownThemAll!
  DownThemAll!
  DownThemAll is a download manager/accelerator extension for Mozilla Firefox, licensed under the GPL. It can pause and restart supporting downloads at any time, without losing data, and enables users to download all the links, images or embedded object contained in a webpage...
  
  
• DownloadStudio
  DownloadStudio
  DownloadStudio is a shareware download manager and download accelerator developed and published by Conceiva.DownloadStudio can download files, programs, images, documents PDF, Flash files, entire Websites, FTP sites, streaming audio and streaming video from the Internet.DownloadStudio has been...
  
  
• FatRat
• Folx
• FlashGet
  FlashGet
  FlashGet is a freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows...
  
  
• Free Download Manager
  Free Download Manager
  Free Download Manager is a free open source graphical download manager for the Microsoft Windows operating system.FDM was previously proprietary software, but with the release of version 2.5 it has been open source. Starting with version 3.0.850 , source code is no longer provided as a packaged...
  
  
• Fresh Download
• GetRight
  GetRight
  GetRight is a shareware download manager developed by Headlight Software.-Features:GetRight is able to pause and resume downloads, download from multiple servers to speed up download time , scheduling the starting and stopping of downloads and shutting off the computer or disconnecting the modem...
  
  
• GigaGet
• HiDownload
• iGetter
• InstantGet
• Internet Download Accelerator
  Internet Download Accelerator
  Internet Download Accelerator, often called IDA, is a freeware/shareware download manager created by a Ukrainian software company WestByte Software for the Microsoft Windows operating system...
  
  
• Internet Download Manager
  Internet Download Manager
  Internet Download Manager is a shareware download manager. It is only available for the Microsoft Windows operating system.-Features:...
  
  
• JDownloader
  JDownloader
  JDownloader is a download manager, written in Java, which allows the automatic downloading of files and split files from one-click hosting sites such as Rapidshare and Megaupload. JDownloader supports the use of premium accounts. Certain parts of JDownloader are open source.JDownloader is better...
  
  
• LeechGet
  LeechGet
  LeechGet is a shareware download manager for Microsoft Windows. It has a commercial version and a free version.-Features:*Download files.*Can resume download files or pause downloading.*Faster speed than browser download manager....
  
  
• Mass Downloader
• Net Transport
  Net Transport
  Net Transport is a shareware download manager and stream ripper for Windows made by Xi Software.The company also develops FTP Transport, which is included with Net Transport.-External links:** from *...
  
  
• NetXfer
• NetAnts
  NetAnts
  NetAnts is a multilingual closed source software download manager, one of the earliest download manager with handling of different connections and pausing the download functions.-Common features:*Download resuming...
  
  
• Orbit Downloader
  Orbit Downloader
  -External links:* * at Download.com* at Softonic.com...
  
  
• Prozilla
• ReGet
• Retriever
• Star Downloader
• Thunder (Chinese language
  Chinese language
  The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
  
   only)
• TrueDownloader
• Ukraininan Download Master (Russian language
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
   only)
• μTorrent
• WellGet
• wxDownload Fast
  WxDownload Fast
  wxDownload Fast is a free/open source download manager. It was created to be multi-platform, so at the moment it builds on Windows , Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X....
  
  

Search Refinements

Version 1.2.1.13 included an experimental "Search Refinements for downloadable files and media" feature based on Surf Canyon

Surf Canyon

Surf Canyon is a small computer software company founded and located in San Francisco, California, as well as their eponymous browser extension and web site...

 technology. This functionality, which submitted search keywords to Surf Canyon for processing, was easy to opt out of with one click but enabled by default, prompting criticism equating the feature to adware

Adware

Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer. These advertisements can be in the form of a pop-up. They may also be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during...

 and spyware

Spyware

Spyware is a type of malware that can be installed on computers, and which collects small pieces of information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user, and can be difficult to detect. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user's...

, even though no user data was reused, shared or stored. The feature was disabled in version 1.2.1.14 and removed in version 1.2.1.15.

External links

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