Reviews of Free Download Manager

1. 
   Joseph A

   Reviewing 3.8 Build 1173 (Dec 29, 2011)

   An excellent download manager.
   
   There is also a "lite" version available at http://files.freedownloa...g/lite/fdminst-lite.exe which does not have the Video Conversion and the BitTorrent plugins, and the Language Pack. These can added later, if desired. See http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm.
2. 
   rip_pit

   Reviewing 3.8.1090 Beta 4 (Aug 18, 2011)

   changelog : http://freedownloadmanag...pic.php?f=1&t=15602
3. 
   Karol Mily

   Reviewing 3.7 RC1 Build 956 (Jun 13, 2011)

   Have you tried - http://www.httrack.com/ or http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm. Wget for Windows is my selection, run very fast. It is comsole app, there are GUI fot it.
4. 
   rip_pit

   Reviewing 3.5 RC Build 930 (Sep 17, 2010)

   one of the best downloaders i tried. Contains all the helpfull features need to download plus more, like video download, preview and convert
   
   I once loved FlashGet but I found in FDM a great replacement
   
   Not yet tested this build but i'm sure it'll do it better
5. 
   tranglos

   Reviewing 3.5 RC Build 930 (Sep 15, 2010)

   I've had a highly disappointing experience with FDM just recently.
   
   One, YouTube downloads do not work at all. For a YouTube URL, FDM downloads an extensionless file named "view", which is simply the html page YouTube serves to the browser. I guess this is a bug, but what happened to testing?
   
   Two, notice how inconvenient it is to set your own filename for a (regular http) download. I download a lot of podcasts cia Google reader - copy URL, paste in downloader. But these files almost always have uninformtaive names, like xx_YYMMDD.mp3. So I rename them to showname_person_interviewed_YYMMDD or such. Well., in FDM to rename the destinatioun file you have to click a button. The button does not have a keyboard accelerator. So you either have to use the mouse or tab through all the controls to reach the button. By contrast, in ReGetDX, all I have to do after pasting the URL is type "a" (not even Alt-A, though that works too), and the focus jumps to the destination filename field.
   
   Minor, yes, nitpicky, yes, but it's annoying when you do it hundreds of times, and also indicative that developers don't really think much about user experience. Alt+key accelerators are there for free, just put an ampersand in the control's caption - what could be hard about that? And there's a lot of software out there that neglects this simple, basic UI facility. So I'll stay with Reget, even though it hasn't been updated in quite some time, and I still need a different app for downloading from YouTube.

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