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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: November 07, 2006
- 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
Downloading videos, Flash games, and large batches of files is greatly simplified with this freeware download manager, but Firefox 2 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 is an indispensable tool for download acceleration. It has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe P2P downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. It is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. Also it is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. Most of the features present in other download manager clients are present in orbit, including bandwidth prioritization, proxy servers, download categories, queue processor, enhanced virus protection on download completion. Additionally, Orbit can get flash games and audio/video from Web pages and grab videos from YouTube or other video sites.
Version 1.0.0.2 fixes a bug in multilingual interface support, displays Drop Zone by default.
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User reviews of Orbit 1.0.0.2
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1133 votes
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.0.0.2
"Great acceralator for downloading."
Pros: -Excellent speed
-Can get downloads from anywhere (even from Limewire and stuff like P2P)
Cons: -Basically nothing
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.0.0.2
Pros: adware reported!
Cons: adware reported!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.0.0.2
"I'm the developer of Orbit Downloader"
Pros: Orbit Downloader is an pure freeware without any spyware/adware/malware.
1.We never install any toolbar/adware/spyware to system, We are contacting with the anti-virus vendor to solve the mis-alarm problem.
2. Orbit Downloader have no relationship with adware "Orbit Explorer", Orbit name come from
NASA's website.
3.orbitnet.exe is an optional program which uses the DHT p2p network to locate additional
copies of the program you are downloading, much like torrent does,so that it can download
pieces of the file from different servers and combine them, in order to speed up download.
You can't disable it in current version, But in next version,you can disable it during
installation & options menu.
Sincerely
Orbit Team.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.0.0.2
Pros: This program has some kind of malware! This is the only "advantage" - malware for you.
And this guys quickly produce "good comments" that are unfair, just to raise rating.
Cons: This program has some kind of malware! This is the only "advantage" - malware for you.
And this guys quickly produce "good comments" that are unfair, just to raise rating.
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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.0.0.2
Cons: This program's ONLY feature is pervasive dirty publicity. It contains ADWARE and connects to remote Ad servers. Already reported by some of our Donationcoder.com forum members.
Caveat emptor, please watch out!
- Anderson
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