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June 14, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Featured Freeware: Orbit Downloader

by Seth Rosenblatt
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Downloading videos, Flash games, and large batches of files is greatly simplified with Orbit Downloader manager, but it's been known to give Firefox users headaches.

Orbit's interface is bland, but the basic toolbar and info boxes guarantee everything is easy to find. Orbit shines with Internet Explorer integration. To get a media file, simply right-click a video or photo and choose Download from your context menu. Grabbing a Flash game is even easier. Hover over a Flash file, and Orbit displays a button for a fast download. It uses a bare minimum of memory, and downloads are much faster than with a browser alone.

Although designed to integrate with the IE, Firefox, Opera, and Maxthon, we had great difficulty getting it to work seamlessly with Firefox. Despite this, for mass downloading, Orbit Downloader is definitely worth a look.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by Nitya_virgo June 14, 2008 12:48 AM PDT
good
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by ptzkiler June 14, 2008 2:27 AM PDT
I'm using Internet Download Manager ,Award wining software for downloads.If you're a firefox user there is ad on called DownThemAll it also increase download same like IDM.
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by khaky55 June 14, 2008 5:21 AM PDT
this site is very usefull for me . lot of soft wares i find here very easyly.i think thisa great work.
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by Ranhiru June 16, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
Orbit Downloader is a savior! The fastest downloads ever! And downloads are categorized! Plus the Grab++ which allows you to grab any kind of media from any site! (Yes it bypasses Anti-leech technology in sites like YouTube) and gets ANY media! Awesome! Takes very less memory!
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by 0zSpit July 7, 2008 3:42 PM PDT
one of the fastest downloaders i've tried
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by modthocn August 7, 2008 9:20 AM PDT
Orbit's interface is bland, but the basic toolbar and info boxes guarantee everything is easy to find. Orbit shines with Internet Explorer integration.

But you mean to get a media file, we can right-click a video or photo and choose Download from the context menu? psp game downloads
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by willo181 June 5, 2009 3:06 AM PDT
Super fast and reliable.
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