- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT
- Date added: January 06, 2008
- 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 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.
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. Version 2.5.1 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.5.1 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.5.1
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1133 votes
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Version: Orbit 2.5.1
Pros: Still just as good and easy to use.
Cons: Still just as picky about what it wants to grab.
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Version: Orbit 2.5.1
Pros: Simple, easy to use, and does what it's supposed to.
Cons: It keeps trying to be my default downloader, even for PDF downloads, and I can't seem to find an option to stop it. It's a little irritating if you don't notice that it's minimized and waiting for a response from you, especially if you're waiting for a download that doesn't seem to be happening. Not bad for all that though.
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Version: Orbit 2.5.1
Pros: this make things download fast
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Version: Orbit 2.5.1
Pros: This program sped up my download by about 33% on slow DSL.
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Version: Orbit 2.5.1
Pros: easy to use
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