- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7
- Date added: January 11, 2010
- Total Downloads: 26,873,725
- Downloads last week: 259,760
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1295 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 06, 2008
Downloading videos, Flash games, and large batches of files is greatly simplified with this freeware download manager, but Firefox users may have difficulty with integration.
Orbit's primary 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.
Fast and small are key traits of this application. It uses a bare minimum of memory, and downloads are much faster than with a browser alone. Where Orbit shines is its one-button simplicity for downloading multiple files on a site. From there, you can easily filter for file type. Orbit's numerous configuration options make it one of the more flexible download managers available.
Although designed to integrate with the IE, Firefox, Opera and Maxthon, we had great difficulty getting Orbit to work seamlessly with Firefox. We finally gave up trying to get the Flash download feature to work. Nevertheless, anyone downloading large numbers of files will find this freeware indispensable.
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Publisher's description
From Orbitdownloader :Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation Web application downloading to make downloads more easier and faster. It is a free all-in-one downloader which can download any social media.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0.0.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 1295 votes
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Version: Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.1
Pros: None I can find.
Cons: This is just an overall worthless piece of . . . stuff. Even after uninstalled it kept showing up and messing up downloads.
Summary: It doesn't work. If you use Opera: run away!
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Version: Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.1
Pros: The fact that you can see the progress and if the download is too big for chrome, it is transferred immediately over to orbit to continue, and I can keep browsing.
Cons: Sometimes I can't open the pdf downloads - but I don't know that that is a problem with the orbit program.
Summary: I can download most stuff that I want without jumping through hoops to do it.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.1
"Pretty good, can be annoying though"
Pros: As a download manager, it is pretty fast, and its free.
Haven't, as yet found a better free download manager.Cons: Everytime I use it, it asks me to download a new version. Seems like it gets updated too often.
Has problems if you need to use it through a proxy.Summary: Use it if you want a very good free, download manager and you don't connect via a proxy server, then get it. Just switch off the update checker.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.1
"Doesn't work with opera 10.50"
Pros: none that i can see.
Cons: "Get" button does not appear.
Summary: useless without the "get" button. see above.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 3.0.0.1
"Not simple nor straightforward"
Pros: Very useful.
Cons: Not straightforward involving several steps
Summary: I would investigate other choices.
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