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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: February 21, 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 1134 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 2.6.3 links a menu item to 'Essential freeware' in 'Help' menu.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.6.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Orbit 2.6.3
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1134 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 2.6.3
"Best download manager so far after 3 other try-outs"
Pros: I liked some the other download managers that are free when I first used them. With the others, there was always a problem after about 3 days. I've used this one for 5 days now & it hasn't locked my WinXP Media Center yet. So, yes I like it. The interface is simple & everythig is visible with lots of adjustable features. - Although everything is on the default setting so far, this program is fast.
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Version: Orbit 2.6.3
Pros: easy to use, no hang ups.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Orbit 2.6.3
"Excellent downloader, well worth the cost (free), better than many paid dl mgrs."
Pros: I used Download Accelerator Plus for 6 or 7 years, but it frequently crashed in mid-download. I miss some of DAP's features, but Orbit seems stable over the last month and doesn't conflict with AdMuncher, as DAP did.
Cons: I would like to control number of download streams and to change bandwidth allocation without going several layers into menus.
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Version: Orbit 2.6.3
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Version: Orbit 2.6.3
Pros: It's fast download tool that pretty much is a packet sniffer that detects files in packets and downloads the file for you, which is not allowed in a normal browser.
Cons: MADE IN CHINA, by chinese. We all know about Chinese made stuff always out to get us ;). I analyzed the traffic and it looks like it's doing some call backs to chinese IP addresses and this tool captures ALL INTERNET traffic from your browsers and who knows what else. SO I CAUTION YOU becareful when you use it....
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