Best free download managers

[kavin]

Obviously IDM is much better but it costs ~$30. For most of us its too much for a download manager until you download loads of content daily from the web.

$30 is a big sum for me too, mate. I just got it from my friend who no longer use it.
Unless, i won't bother to try it.

[Ashwin]

@Corker, Thanks for the informative post

I am using FDM for now. works gr8

Cant use Orbit, since it doesnt play well with Kaspersky

[Zug]

Currenty I am using FDM as well.. I tested it alongside IDM and I actually got faster DL"s with FDM than with IDM... when i just reinstalled FDM, i opted not to install the part to do torrents and what not.. doesn't really appear to be bloated on my system. but then again.. with 6gb ddr3 ram.. i am not hurting so much :P have not tried orbit out yet though either.. maybe give a shot one day

[Grr]

Currenty I am using FDM as well.. I tested it alongside IDM and I actually got faster DL"s with FDM than with IDM... when i just reinstalled FDM, i opted not to install the part to do torrents and what not.. doesn't really appear to be bloated on my system. but then again.. with 6gb ddr3 ram.. i am not hurting so much :P have not tried orbit out yet though either.. maybe give a shot one day

I agree, as a FREE product FDM rocks.....but as in paid, IDM rocks...

[Samuel]

I'm also using FDM and its great. But the browser integration won't work with latest versions of Firefox, Opera and Chrome. But thanks to Flashgot that makes it compatible with firefox. Speed with FDM was great and Orbit is becoming a bloatware, that made me shift to FDM. Nice to see you all using FDM too!

[Ashwin]

I'm also using FDM and its great. But the browser integration won't work with latest versions of Firefox, Opera and Chrome. But thanks to Flashgot that makes it compatible with firefox. Speed with FDM was great and Orbit is becoming a bloatware, that made me shift to FDM. Nice to see you all using FDM too!

Thats weird. FDM works fine with Firefox 3.6.13

[Samuel]

Thats weird. FDM works fine with Firefox 3.6.13

Latest in the sense, Beta. Works fine with stable versions of IE and FF.

[avibky]

love dap downoload manager

[Ashwin]

love dap downoload manager

Good for you

But I have never had luck with DAP. always get corrupted downloads

[Grr]

Good for you

But I have never had luck with DAP. always get corrupted downloads

how big the downloads were? Use FDM...