Free Download Manager (FDM) is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. FDM 5.0 alpha version brings a completely new, simplified and more user-friendly interface design. It also provides some advanced features, such as a drag-and-drop option for all links to download videos from YouTube. FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption. FDM lets you download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. You can also download files using BitTorrent protocol.
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GNU General Public License. Free Download Manager is released under GNU Public License!.
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BitTorrent support. Download files using BitTorrent protocol.
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Remote Control. Create new downloads or view the list of active and completed downloads remotely, via the internet.
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Portable mode. If you want to use Free Download Manager on different computers, you can easily create its portable version and avoid the need to install and configure the program on each computer.
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Enhanced audio/video files support. Preview audio/video files before download is completed and convert file format after download.
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Absolutely free and 100% safe. Free Download Manager is free, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
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Download acceleration. Free Download Manager splits files into several sections and downloads them simultaneously, allowing you to use any type of connection at the maximum available speed. With FDM download speed increases, or even more!
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Resuming broken downloads. When the downloading process is interrupted, you needn’t start from the beginning again. Free Download Manager can resume broken download from where it was interrupted saving your time, nerves and money.
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Smart file management and powerful scheduler. With FDM you can easily organize downloaded files by their type, placing them in predefined folders. A smart scheduler allows you to start and pause downloading files, as well as perform other actions (launch other applications, establish or hang up connection, etc.) at the set time.
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Adjusting traffic usage. There are several traffic usage modes. You can adjust traffic usage for browsing the Internet and downloading files at the same time.
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Site Explorer. Site Explorer lets you view the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.
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HTML Spider. You can download whole web pages or even whole web sites with HTML Spider. The tool can be adjusted to download files with specified extensions only.
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Simultaneous downloading from several mirrors. Free Download Manager is able to download files from several mirrors simultaneously.
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Zip files partial download. Free Download Manager lets you download only the necessary part of a zip file.
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Active spyware and adware protection through active communication among users. You can read what other community members say about the file you are going to download, right in the program window, and also leave your own opinion about the file you downloaded. In this way FDM users are always warned against useless or malicious files.
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Multi language support. Free Download Manager is translated into 30 languages. Supported languages are: Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Croatian, Korean, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese, Czech, German, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek, Greek, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Persian.
Operating systems:• Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and higher
Changes in Free Download Manager 3.9.6 build 1614 (2015-08-08):New features:[+] Firefox 40+ support.
Changes in Free Download Manager 5.0 Preview Build 4520.3 (2015-05-26): New features: [*]Improved stability for Firefox add-on updates
There are still some
known issues:
[*]Import of History from FDM 3 is turned off
[*]RAM consumption can be high under certain circumstances
[*]IE integration will not work in IE11 with Enhanced protected mode turned on
[*]With long lists of downloads (400+), UI might start working slowly
To Report a Bug/Ask to Add a Feature from FDM 3[*] Please post on this thread. Do not create additional threads. This is the place where both bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome.
To Suggest a New Feature[*] Please click on the "Suggest an idea" banner at the top right corner of any forum page.Screenshot:
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