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- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 20,921,915
- Downloads last week: 219,117
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1152 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 2.8.16 add "Getit" support to Firefox
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User reviews of Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1152 votes
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
Pros: Does what it says it does.
Cons: It takes over all downloading, using the same default location each time, requiring one to browse for a desired location for each download. (The built-in downloader defaults to the last location saved which is convenient at least part of the time.)
Summary: If you want to download flash videos, get it.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
Pros: It does a good job of grabbing video and audio downloads. Downloads quickly and efficiently.
Cons: Just that it doesn't grab everything!
Summary: This is definitely a good tool to have if you wanna download anything. You can grab downloads from media that doesn't have download links. Definitely worth downloading and using.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
Pros: It complete some of the downloads.
It provides wide pallets of tools that should do the work.Cons: Wont complete the download, most of requested download will start and stop after 10% of file.
Summary: Good potential, have worked great in the past - not any more.
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
Pros: 1) It still makes none LAN users push their download times like if it was on LAN. 2) Download manager is easily manageable and navigable. 3) been using this for months 4) grab++ can get youtube vids
Cons: Nothing to complain about.
Summary: It runs circles around FireFox's regular download manager; 3 to 4x faster. It might make your regular internet connection comparable to LAN when using this downloader. If LAN was not fast enough, this thing makes it like lightning (1GB = 5min; 1GB =... read more >>
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Version: Orbit Downloader 2.8.16
Pros: excellent.
Cons: excellent.
Summary: excellent.
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