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[Poll] Download Managers 2008 -Members Choice

Download Managers, Members preference poll 2007

Wikipedia defines a download manager as: a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance).
None 70 (36.8%)
DownloadThemAll (Free - Mozilla/Firefox extension) 30 (15.7%)
FlashGet (Free) 18 (9.4%)
Free Download Manager (Free) 13 (6.8%)
Other 9 (4.7%)
FlashGot (Mozilla Firefox Free) 9 (4.7%)
Opera's Built In Transfer Manager 7 (3.6%)
LeechGet (Free) 5 (2.6%)
Internet Download Manager (Paid) 5 (2.6%)
GetRight (Shareware) Go!Zilla (Paid) 5 (2.6%)
Orbit Downloader (Free) 4 (2.1%)
Net Transport (Nagware) 3 (1.5%)
Download Studio (Conceiva) (Paid) 2 (1%)
KGet (Linux - Free?) 2 (1%)
Download Accelerator Plus (Free) 1 (0.5%)
ReGet (Paid) 1 (0.5%)
StarDownloader (Free) 1 (0.5%)
Internet Download Accelerator (Paid) 1 (0.5%)
Interarchy (MAC - Paid) 1 (0.5%)
Mass Downloader (Paid) 1 (0.5%)
Gwget (Free Gnome2) 1 (0.5%)
A Specialized Web site (one example) 1 (0.5%)
Panload Download Manager (Paid) 0 (0%)
TrueDownloader (Free) 0 (0%)
NetAnts (Adware) 0 (0%)
wxDownload Fast (Free) 0 (0%)
Connect Fusion (Free) 0 (0%)
Net Vampire (Paid) 0 (0%)
Naja (Free) 0 (0%)
GetBot (Free basic - Advanced Paid) 0 (0%)
Download Mage (Paid) 0 (0%)
HiDownload Pro (Paid) 0 (0%)
Instantget (Paid) 0 (0%)
Downloader for X (Free - a GUI for Linux) 0 (0%)
Download Express (Basic Free. more features Paid) 0 (0%)
Lightning DOwnload (Paid) 0 (0%)
Magic Download Accelerator (Free) 0 (0%)
FasterDownloader (Nagware?) 0 (0%)
Aria (Free) 0 (0%)
166 participants.
190 total votes.
results as pie chart in flash




A review from safer-networking.org (2003), good but dated since things like NetTransport is no longer free, unless you have/find an older version. »www.safer-networking.org/en/arti···ers.html

Some addenda
Second to last choice "A Specialized Web Site" is somewhat of a new phenomina, sites appearing that allow you to download clips from elsewhere that aren't "downloadable". So I put that choice in just to give us an idea of how many of us will use a site like the example from time to time. Not exactly a true download manager program, but a downloader of sorts.

NetTransport home site has something that my AntiVirus (AVG) triggers on, I assume a false positive, just a caution if you go there with AVG.

FlashGot doesn't look to be a download manager per se, appears to be an interface that lets you use other download managers with mozilla Firefox (but I decided to include it)

While we have no poll category for web downloading programs like WebReaper , I decided not to include them in the poll, but feel free to mention one if you also use it for downloading. Technically they would be more of a spider/crawler but some download managers have that feature (like Conceiva which I use).
Also not including questionable or illegal ones (StreamboxVCR illegal in USA but ancient now).

And here is last year's poll in case you want to see what was said or copy something over to this years DM Poll 2006
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Re: [Poll] Download Managers - 2008 Member Choice

Nice poll, my Chimp

I chose Opera's Built-in. Good enough for me
permalink · 2007-12-21 13:38:45 ·

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said by lilhurricane See Profile :

Nice poll, my Chimp

I chose Opera's Built-in. Good enough for me
Same here.

Good job with the poll!
permalink · 2007-12-21 18:49:40 ·

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Nice job with the poll Rxdoxx See Profile.
I voted for and use Opera's built in transfer manager.
permalink · 2007-12-21 13:39:24 ·

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Re: [Poll] Download Managers 2008

I read the last poll and saw our diehard Opera man Rob A See Profile post it, so I knew I had to add it this year

Me? I'm using Opera a lot for that feature now-a-days.

Still have NetTransport used it a lot when free, bothered when it became nagware, so had a decision to make.
Felt a little bad not supporting him, but decided to spend the bucks on Conceiva Download Studio because it also has some spider features. It integrates with MSIE, so at a web page I can right click and have it show all the links. Really useful at times to find the secret embedded link I want to download
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Thank you for the poll!

I chose DownloadThemAll, which shows up as DownThemAll in my add-ons list.
permalink · 2007-12-21 15:22:02 ·

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permalink · 2007-12-21 16:00:11 ·

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FlashGet.
permalink · 2007-12-21 16:26:58 ·

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Re: [Poll] Download Managers 2008 -Members Choice

Flashget here too. As well as the Downthemall! Firefox extension. Works great.
permalink · 2007-12-22 03:37:28 ·

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Re: [Poll] Download Managers 2008 -Members Choice

Voted "none." Many years ago I used "GetRight" but then I was on dialup. Don't see the need now.
permalink · 2007-12-22 12:02:08 ·

dolphins
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permalink · 2007-12-21 16:46:14 ·

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clubs:		 I use both the default download thing and DownThemAll (firefox) as well as normal ftp
permalink · 2007-12-21 17:15:00 ·

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1 edit		 None, really have no need.

Thanks for the poll Rxdoxx See Profile!

EDIT: thanks for the definitions of "none" and "other" too!
permalink · 2007-12-21 18:27:42 ·

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 I chose other because I'm mostly on a Mac these days and use Speed Download »www.yazsoft.com/
But when I use Windows i use Internet Download Manager

Great poll Rxdoxx
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permalink · 2007-12-21 20:52:19 ·

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PuNe, InDiA		 Flashget! Love that application,
and with Flashgot extension for Firefox, its just perfect.
permalink · 2007-12-21 21:47:44 ·

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 Thank you for the excellent Poll Rxdoxx See Profile !

I've used a few on the list in the past, but Operas built in manager usually works great for my purposes these days...so it gets my vote.
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permalink · 2007-12-21 23:39:06 ·

Rob A
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Opera's Bult-in Download Manager (but I goofed up and voted none by accident).
permalink · 2007-12-22 00:18:41 ·

Tsume

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Linux = d4x

I voted for both but I don't see any votes for d4x. Weird.
permalink · 2007-12-22 01:05:56 ·

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permalink · 2007-12-22 12:18:44 ·

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permalink · 2007-12-22 15:32:00 ·
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I use:
Opera's Built In Transfer Manager

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permalink · 2007-12-23 17:33:09 ·

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 GetRight Pro. I don't really need all the features of this application but felt a need to support the author of this software, so I bought the Pro version.
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permalink · 2007-12-27 09:15:24 ·

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 Thanks, Rxdoxx See Profile for the great poll.

I use Orbit, as it does the trick for me. I remember back in 97(on dial up) I used Go!Zilla Free before I knew about Gator and Spyware etc.
permalink · 2007-12-27 19:22:12 ·
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