[Poll] Download Managers 2008 -Members Choice

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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%)
FlashGot (Mozilla Firefox Free)	9 (4.7%)
Other	9 (4.7%)
Opera's Built In Transfer Manager	7 (3.6%)
GetRight (Shareware) Go!Zilla (Paid)	5 (2.6%)
Internet Download Manager (Paid)	5 (2.6%)
LeechGet (Free)	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%)
Gwget (Free Gnome2)	1 (0.5%)
Interarchy (MAC - Paid)	1 (0.5%)
Internet Download Accelerator (Paid)	1 (0.5%)
Mass Downloader (Paid)	1 (0.5%)
ReGet (Paid)	1 (0.5%)
StarDownloader (Free)	1 (0.5%)
A Specialized Web site (one example)	1 (0.5%)
Aria (Free)	0 (0%)
Connect Fusion (Free)	0 (0%)
Download Express (Basic Free. more features Paid)	0 (0%)
Downloader for X (Free - a GUI for Linux)	0 (0%)
Download Mage (Paid)	0 (0%)
FasterDownloader (Nagware?)	0 (0%)
GetBot (Free basic - Advanced Paid)	0 (0%)
HiDownload Pro (Paid)	0 (0%)
Instantget (Paid)	0 (0%)
Lightning DOwnload (Paid)	0 (0%)
Magic Download Accelerator (Free)	0 (0%)
Naja (Free)	0 (0%)
NetAnts (Adware)	0 (0%)
Net Vampire (Paid)	0 (0%)
Panload Download Manager (Paid)	0 (0%)
TrueDownloader (Free)	0 (0%)
wxDownload Fast (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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