- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: January 29, 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, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web application downloading to make downloads more easier and faster. It is a free all-in-one downloader which can download streaming media, social music or video from anywhere include youtube, myspace, imeem, pandora, etc. It is famous for its super light, great speed and rapidshare supported. Also it support resume, proxy server, scheduler, metalink.
Version 2.6.1 fixes a bug that may cause Orbit Downloader crash when download via RTSP protocol.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.6.1 fixes a bug that may cause Orbit Downloader crash when download via RTSP protocol.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.6.1
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1133 votes
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Version: Orbit 2.6.1
Pros: this software does everything the CNET Download review says it does and more. I cannot believe that I finally found a FREEWARE that downloads streaming media efficiently and without errors. As a bonus, it does it very well.
Cons: No complaints here.
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Version: Orbit 2.6.1
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Version: Orbit 2.6.1
"It can download .flvs inside of .swfs!"
Pros: I wanted a program that can record .flvs inside of .swfs and this can do it. I have Replay AV8 and WM Recorder 12. I paid for those programs, yet this free program can do what the payware cannot.
Cons: It can crash sometimes when I click to grab the file or cause a long delay for the download window to appear.
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Version: Orbit 2.6.1
"Awesome download manager/YouTube video ripper!"
Pros: This program does it all and it easily integrates into Firefox or Internet Explorer. It works fast and runs smoothly in the background (minimized to task tray). But what I really like about it is the way it can rip almost any video/flash file from websites. I don't have any copy protection issues - this program downloads them all! It will download embedded videos, FLV videos, flash files/animations...it's awesome (can easily be down by right-clicking on the object and then clicking on "Get it")...
Cons: None.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 2.6.1
Pros: This is the only freeware program that can sniff and find RTMP streams. I find it very useful for recording VBS.TV losslessly so I can convert episodes to MP4 and transfer to iPod.
Cons: Minor annoyance: integrates itself a little too much into Firefox; I only want it to handle content coming from obscure network protocols, I don't want it to hijack links that the Firefox download manager already handles fine.
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