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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 10, 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 1155 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 2.2.1 support 4 GB+ file download; adds 'Move up' and 'Move down' item to Downloading context menu.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.2.1 support 4 GB+ file download; adds 'Move up' and 'Move down' item to Downloading context menu.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.2.1
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1155 votes
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Version: Orbit 2.2.1
Pros: Download videos from YouTube, File Resume Support
Cons: Comparing speeds with Free Download Manager, the FDM is much faster.
This, is kind of slow.
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Version: Orbit 2.2.1
"Great product that replaces at least two..."
Pros: I definitely like this product it replaced both the "download them all" and "unplug" extensions in Firefox...at least for me. Unplug couldn't download videos from google video and Orbit was able to do every thing DTA could do. I will caution you though. If you are a Firefox user and you use a profile other than the default profile you'll have to relocate the file that Orbit puts in the default profile and copy it into your profile. Profile should be in C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(your profile.xxx)
Cons: It installed the firefox plugin in the default users profile. If you use the default profile you'll be fine.
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Version: Orbit 2.2.1
"Fast enough and trouble free; even works on dialup"
Pros: I really like the floating Grabit bar
Cons: I would like it even better if it had a preview window
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Version: Orbit 2.2.1
Pros: g
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