HoppaLong Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 The most popular browser addon, plugin, or extension is a download manager. The browser I'm using right now has Download With > FlashGet in the Context Menu. If all your downloads are direct links, this type of integration is all you need. 95% of my downloads are redirects. That means a new tab or window opens before the download starts. All cloud storage file and video sites use redirects (also called URL forwarding). Your favorite download manager is useless most of the time. The "Save As" browser applet seems to be your only option. I recently tried Portable SlimBoat. It claims to have a fully functional download manager that will pause or resume broken downloads. Here is a direct quote from FlashPeak: "You no longer have to worry about broken downloads. You can close the web browser and pause all the download jobs. In the next session, you can pick up the download jobs right where you left it off." I tested SlimBoat with a 75 MB file. At 50% I closed the manager. Half the file (about 37.5 MB) should have been cached to my local drive, so the download could be resumed. It didn't work. The file was listed as zero bytes. This would never happen with a "real" manager like uGet, EagleGet, FlashGet, etc. I know how to use most any browser, but I'm not an expert on how they function. Is there a lightweight browser that will integrate and launch a real download manager with redirects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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