Free Download Manager
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Free Download Manager in Windows 8 | |
| Initial release | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.9.7 (build 1625) (December 24, 2015) [±][1] |
| Preview release | 5.1.11 beta |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Platform |
Hardware: IA-32 Software: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Apple Safari, SeaMonkey |
| Available in | Albanian, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese |
| Type | Download manager and BitTorrent client |
| License | GNU GPL version 3[2] |
| Website |
www |
Free Download Manager is a free and open-source download manager for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
FDM was previously proprietary software, but with the release of version 2.5 it has been free software.[2] Starting with version 3.0.850 (15 April 2010), source code is no longer provided as a packaged download, but is available in the project's Subversion repository.[3] Free Download Manager received a 2007 Webuser Gold Award.[4]
Features
- The GUI presents several tabs that organise types of downloads and allow access to different features in the program.
- Download information view that shows each download's progress bar, file preview, community opinions if any are written for that download and a log showing connection status
- Drop box for file drag-and-drop
- HTTP and FTP download support
- RTSP/MMS download support [5]
- Batch downloading support for downloading a set of files
- Splits large file into parts (specified in the settings of the software) and downloads simultaneously
- BitTorrent support (based on Libtorrent)
- Metalink support, for easy downloading from mirrors
- Magnet URI scheme support.[6]
- Flash video download from sites like YouTube and Google Video
- Resuming broken downloads, if permitted by server
- Download throttling via three fully customizable traffic modes: light, medium, and heavy
- Import list of URLs from clipboard
- Integrates with the browser being used to track URL or Copy functions if downloadable content is found
- Remote control via Internet
Tabs
- Downloads - This is the focal point of the program, which is simply a download manager. Users can also create groups with folders to which files with specific extensions will be downloaded.
- Flash video downloads - This feature helps users to download FLV video files from YouTube, Google Video and many other site.
- Torrents - Allows to download torrent files
- Scheduler - Users can create and manage lists of tasks to be executed at a preset time. Tasks include launching external programs, starting and stopping downloads, and shutting down the computer in all possible ways.
- Site Explorer - This feature is an FTP client.
- Site Manager - This feature allows users to tell FDM how to act with specific sites, such as websites that require authentication, or how many download connections a website can accept simultaneously from the user.
- HTML Spider - This feature can download a website by following and downloading links recursively.
See also
- BitTorrent client
- Comparison of file sharing applications
- Comparison of download managers
- Comparison of YouTube downloaders
References
- ↑ "Free Download Manager". Files. Free Download Manager.org. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- 1 2 "FDM 2.5 is released!". Free Download Manager blog. 15 April 2007. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ↑ "Free Download Manager". SCM Repositories. SourceForge. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ↑ Andy Shaw. "Free Download Manager Review - Web-User". Webuser. IPC Media. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ↑ "Blog Archive » Current stable version: FDM ver. 3.9.2 build 1303". Free Download Manager. 2012-12-27. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
- ↑ http://www.idmfullindir.com
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