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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 11/13/38 11:26
__/ [Els] on Saturday 10 September 2005 10:14 \__
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Download Manager in Firefox is an excellent feature. It enables you to
>>> keep progress of multiple files that you are downloaded while avoiding
>>> the clutter of many children windows
>>
>> Aye. Almost as good as Opera 5+'s "Transfers" window. :-)
Haven't used Opera for many years, but I still hear good things...
> No, better imo. When I download a file in Opera, the transfer window
> comes to the front. Quite annyoing if you are rightclicking and
> downloading a list of files. I moved a url to Firefox precisely for
> that reason twice in the last week.
If you are mass-downloading (as the above seems to imply), be sure to use
wget, which is a grabber.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/02/26/recursive-downloads/
It is rather quick and innate after a little bit of practice. Just a simple
copy and paste of the 'template' command, then pasting the URL at the end.
Getting the "hang of it" pays off in my opinion. FlashGot is mentioned in
the page above, but it is YAE (Yet Another Extension...), which clutters
the context menus *sigh*.
Roy
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