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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 12, 2007
- Total Downloads: 10,038,655
- Downloads last week: 374,366
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1142 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 Downloader is a great speed, super light, easy to use/config, feature-rich and free download manager. It integrates seamlessly into IE and FireFox. It supports HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/RTSP/MMS/Metalink and can resume broken downloads. Using Orbit Downloader, you can also download flash games online, download videos from Youtube, Google, MetaCafe, Myspace and DailyMotion and download files from most of file-sharing service websites like RapidShare.
Version 1.4.5 adds scheduler feature to schedule downloads, ZIP preview to view the contents of a zip file before downloading it.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.4.5
"works as advertised(atleast here) although not completely."
Pros: the program simple to use and requires no extra software. it does easily assimalite with you browser and will download flash videos from various sites. Haven't detected any spy or mal-ware as of yet.
Cons: the program seems to be broken when downloading from rapidshare. files from Rapidshare(other site aswell) download super fast but are incomplete or damaged and rendered usless. Direct download are faster but not by much. when not using the program to download the program will open up anytime you click on a download link, unless told not to monitor browser(preferences) it will constantly popup and annoy you.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 1.4.5
Pros: Tried downloading Dreamweaver 8 for the last couple of weeks. I'm on dial-up so takes a while, five hours! Almost made it on Monday only five minutes to go and the connection drops out!
Today I downloaded Orbit1.4.5,this as a last resort. Back to Adobe, started the download, took my wife to the airport, returned six hours later, 'Bingo'. Download completed and PC turned off as well. Total download time for 59.75 Mb was five hours and fifteen minutes. Fantastic.
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