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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Date added: January 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 10,038,655
- Downloads last week: 374,366
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1133 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. Orbit Downloader 2.8 release Grab Pro to support RTMP protocol video download from sites like Yahoo and BBC. It is also famous for super light, great speed, and rapidshare supported.
Version 2.8.3 improves Firefox support.
What's new in this version:
* Fix: some bugs in Firefox
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User reviews of Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1133 votes
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
"When you uninstall it you realize it's Spyware"
Pros: It works fine until you try to uninstall it. Then you see what you actually got yourself into.
Cons: It's Spyware. Plain and simple. Won't uninstall cleanly and changes your browser settings. It changes your home page, and leaves many traces behind. This is definitely Spyware!
Summary: Stay away. If it exhibits one obvious spyware-like feature, who knows how many similar features it contains that are not so obvious.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
"I have found Orbit to be the best one yet."
Pros: I have been using Orbit for a long time and it's really great for downloading videos from many sites.
Cons: Only demerits I found is that it couldn't download videos from google videos that made me very upset coz that video couldn't be found in any other sites.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
Pros: Easy, quick, no spyware/addware
Cons: Modifies download method for alla downloads
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
"Spyware Spyware Spyware Spyware Spyware Spyware"
Pros: Didn't Liked It
Cons: Changes the search engine without your permission.
A complete Adware, if you want to remove it completely, use Revo.Summary: Not worth, changes search engine, multiple registry updates, uninstall is not clean.
This forced chang... read more >>
Comodo prompts multiple times with RED flag: malware behavior detected.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.3
Pros: very easy to use
Cons: i like it very much!
Summary: first its free, very easy to download unlike to the other types of downloader.
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