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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 24, 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 1152 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 2.3.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.3.1
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1152 votes
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Version: Orbit 2.3.1
Pros: Compared to just about all the other downloaders CNET has. This is the only one that outperforms all of them. Believe me i have tried them all. The highest I got on download is 1.2 mb per second and usual is around 745 to 800 kb. It does get slower at times but usually during high bandwidth usage and heavy internet usage but I am very pleased with this program. Give it a try. i think you will be amazed.
Cons: It wont download correctly if internet site has it's own downloader or site blocks it.
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Version: Orbit 2.3.1
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Version: Orbit 2.3.1
Pros: grabs anything
Cons: problem with download resuming
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