- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: June 03, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,796,876
- Downloads last week: 7,673
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 762 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn't be more straightforward. To download a file, just click a link in your browser or drag it onto the program's tiny, semitransparent window.
In our comparison tests, Free Download Manager beat out Opera's download manager 85Kbps to 53Kbps. Its automation features also are very good. Like other managers, it can automatically dial a modem, start a download, or shut down the PC. Unlike many of them, it also can change the number of connections depending on download speed, or disconnect and shut down the computer if a file is unavailable.
If you want to boost your download speed for free, this utility is certainly worth a try.
Publisher's description
From FreeDownloadManager :Download files and convert videos (including flash) faster with open-source Free Download Manager. Its features include integration with all browsers, support of downloads from RapidShare, BitTorrent support, adjusting traffic usage, resuming broken downloads. Free Download Manager is released under GPL license and adds BitTorent support, flash video download, upload manager, portable mode and remote control.
Version 2.5 build 758 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 2.5 build 758 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 762 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
Pros: Faster downloads than the one used within a browser. I like that you can pause and resume later and that interupted downloads can be resumed.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
"Getting Better with each Build"
Pros: FDM is a very good download manager as well as a very good upload manager. Installation is very easy, and it is basically ready-to-run "out of the box". The preferences are quite easy to setup. And one of the improvement over the last build is the checkbox instructing FDM to "Generage a file name automatically" is no longer checked so that when you start a new download, you do not have to uncheck that option in order to name the file as you want it. Small feature, but it is one of the things I felt needed some improvement.
Cons: Nothing worth talking about
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
"The Open-Source Download Manager (HTTP-FTP-Bittorrent)"
Pros: It downloads EVERYTHING from the Web: it supports "http, ftp and bittorrent" downloads. It is open-source. It requires a small amount of ram memory to work. It is like to have "OrbitDownloader + uTorrent" in a single application!
Cons: There is a small "bug". When a Bittorrent download ends, FDM starts automatically the seeding task: it is impossible to stop the seeding task via the standard STOP button, when the seeding goal is achieved. The only way to stop the seeding task is deleting it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
Pros: i can now grap flv files hihihi
Cons: downloading is not fast as i expected
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 2.5 build 758
"Very good manager/accelerator."
Pros: Works excellent XP OS's.
Cons: Have some difficulty using it with a Vista OS.
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