Download Managers?

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tylenol
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Re: Download Managers?

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Hi all,
It was mentioned earlier in this thread that FlashGot supports DownThemAll manager, but I don't see it listed as a auto-detected manager:
http://flashgot.net/features#dms
Does it need to be setup manually?

The main reason I am using DownThemAll is because unlike the built-in Firefox downloader, it detects if the finished download didn't make it intact by displaying Size mismatch or similar message. The Firefox built-in downloader often shows that the download is done even though the downloaded file-size is smaller than it should be.

Do you know of any download managers other than DownThemAll that have this type of verification feature?

And lastly, I would like to be able to use the download manager not only for URLs I can click to download, but also in cases when download has to be started with by clicking a button without a visible URL. Is that possible?

Thank you in advance!
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Re: Download Managers?

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If you've got it installed, it appears in the list of the available download managers for you to choose. No need for manual configuration.
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Re: Download Managers?

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Thank you, I'll give it a try.
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I was using Free Download Manager, but sometimes it seem to freeze on downloading some files.

I replaced it with orbit and no more download freeze.

Does anyone one know if there is a better downloader then orbit ?
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