Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 70.109.134.41]
on September 08, 2008 12:44 PM
"The only extension I'd like but cannot find in the download management category is one that lets you return to an interrupted download later, after all the dialogs are closed, and resume where you left off."
DownThemAll! is resume-able. Initially began using it for downloading Linux-Distro .ISO's on a dialup connection, which took roughly 40 hours (all that was available at that remote location), spanning many sessions an reboots . It has worked flawlessly at that function using html, less so, however, using ftp (i think). Prior to that DAP Download Accelerator Plus (adware) provided this functionality on my Windows boxes.
Quite frankly, I'm shocked that the other download managers you cite don't have that function. Also, that any browsers native DM ever lacked the resume-able function is counter intuitive, especially when they were first in use when the whole planet was on dial-up. Back then, even losing a 20 meg file was a heartbreaker. Firefox 3 is supposed to be resume-able by default but unlike DownthemAll! it is still not multisession resume-able (might be because I clear my cache on close, don't know), which means it sucks because it misses its mark at its most basic level.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 70.109.134.41] on September 08, 2008 12:44 PMDownThemAll! is resume-able. Initially began using it for downloading Linux-Distro .ISO's on a dialup connection, which took roughly 40 hours (all that was available at that remote location), spanning many sessions an reboots . It has worked flawlessly at that function using html, less so, however, using ftp (i think). Prior to that DAP Download Accelerator Plus (adware) provided this functionality on my Windows boxes.
Quite frankly, I'm shocked that the other download managers you cite don't have that function. Also, that any browsers native DM ever lacked the resume-able function is counter intuitive, especially when they were first in use when the whole planet was on dial-up. Back then, even losing a 20 meg file was a heartbreaker. Firefox 3 is supposed to be resume-able by default but unlike DownthemAll! it is still not multisession resume-able (might be because I clear my cache on close, don't know), which means it sucks because it misses its mark at its most basic level.
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