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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 09, 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 2.4.3 improves uninstall process and fixes the bug which may cause Grab++ can not grab video with IE and bug that caused download failure when URL contains space.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.4.3 improves uninstall process and fixes the bug which may cause Grab++ can not grab video with IE and bug that caused download failure when URL contains space.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.4.3
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1155 votes
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Version: Orbit 2.4.3
Pros: Like what it does
Cons: speed's not as fast as FDM
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Version: Orbit 2.4.3
"The best downloader I've ever used."
Pros: Download Accelerator.
Download from Peers.
YouTube, Google, Flash Video Grabber.
Flash game grabber.
Cons: Some downloads dont have the option to resume.
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Version: Orbit 2.4.3
"Excellent program that just simply works."
Pros: This program downloads the fastest out of all download managers i have used: (FDM, Getright, KGet, WxDownloadFast). It also support looking inside an uncomplete ZIP file download and seeing what files are inside. Metalinks are also supported so i can get really fast speeds. It has great browser integration with a number of browsers and i can start a download straight from my browser and even download videos from Youtube and almost all other video sites. GREAT PROGRAM!!!
Cons: It could have bittorrent support and MD5, SHA-1 etc integrity checking.
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Version: Orbit 2.4.3
Pros: Fast
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Version: Orbit 2.4.3
"On Target and Never Crashed Once"
Pros: I really like the idea of being able to download some of the radio stations that I listen to. This program is really good at what it does, and I successfully downloaded a song within minutes of installing it. I played around with it for many hours and never once did it lock up or become unresponsive. Impressive.
Cons: The only thing negative I have to say, is that (for me) I am having a hard time figuring everything out. The website has seemingly great walk-through instructions, but not for everything. I think if you are familiar with this with other programs, it is a cinch.
A lot of terminiology had me scratching my head (I think it is lost in the translation). Like I said, I was able to download a song right away, but attempts at different sites weren't successful and I know it is because I was not doing something right.
So, that is why I still give it 4 stars. I just need how to learn this program thoroughly and I am hoping I can find a forum somewhere to help those of us who are new to this. But hey, it works great and it is free. Thanks very much to the developers.
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