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Revision as of 13:57, 10 January 2014
![]() Free Download Manager in Windows 8 | |
Initial release | 2004 |
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Stable release | 6.13.4.3616 (February 9, 2021[±][1] | )
Repository | |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Windows XP SP1 and later |
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.
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 downloads 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
- 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
- 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 6 Forums". FreeDownloadManager.org. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ a b "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. Retrieved 11 September 2008.[dead link]
- ^ "Blog Archive » Current stable version: FDM ver. 3.9.2 build 1303". Free Download Manager. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ http://freedownloadmanager.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16625
External links
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