Download with Free Download Manager (FDM)
Sends your downloading jobs to the Free Download Manager by pausing the built-in download manager
What is Download with Free Download Manager (FDM)?
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Summary
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/
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Pros
- Fast downloading speed
- Functionality of the 'download all links' feature
- Better than the original extension
- User-friendly
Cons
- Some users experience malfunction issues
- Does not support customized installation path for FDM
- Occasional opening of unnecessary windows
- Some found it confusing to use
Most mentioned
- Fast speed
- Better than the original extension
- Issues with the extension malfunctioning
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Safety
Risk impact
Download with Free Download Manager (FDM) is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Download with Free Download Manager (FDM) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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