[Release] Free Download Manager 2.5

[Charan]

Good news guys, New version of Free Download Manager (FDM) 2.5 is released. Before we get into the technical details there is "BIG" news.. now FDM is "Open Source"

Here are the features.

GNU General Public License
Free Download Manager is released under GNU Public License!

BitTorrent support
Download files using BitTorrent protocol (available in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista).

Upload manager: easy way to share your files
Upload your files or folders easily to share them with other users.

Flash video download
Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.

Remote Control
Create new downloads or view the list of active and completed downloads remotely, via the internet. Interesting

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.


Enhanced audio/video files support
Preview audio/video files before download is completed and convert file format after download.

Absolutely free and 100% safe
Free Download Manager is free, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Site Explorer
Site Explorer lets you view the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.

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.

Simultaneous downloading from several mirrors
Free Download Manager is able to download files from several mirrors simultaneously.

Zip files partial download
Free Download Manager lets you download only the necessary part of a zip file.

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.

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

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[SunnyChahal]

is it better than flashget?

[Gigacore]

will it support multiple mirrors?

Anyway, thanks bro

[SunnyChahal]

@charan-which download manager u prefer?

[Charan]

Originally Posted by giga

will it support multiple mirrors?

Simultaneous downloading from several mirrors
Free Download Manager is able to download files from several mirrors simultaneously.

Originally Posted by abtom

is it better than flashget?

which download manager u prefer?

I am not using FlashGet anymore so cant tell if FDM is better than FG

Before using FDM I had used flash get, Download acclerator plus and others , but FDM met my requirement.

[gxsaurav]

Orbit download is good enough these days. FDM for me is slow.

[Krazy_About_Technology]

Its old news man! Been using it for last 1 month But thanks anyways.

[casanova]

Thanks for the info. Downloading

[ax3]

downloading NOW .......... thanx 4 info ........

[niga84]

let see

[ravi_9793]

Thanks for sharing........
I prefer flashget

[ThinkFree]

Thanks for info