Posted by Els on 09/27/41 11:26

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [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...

So, why have you stopped using it?

>> 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*.

I'll keep that method in mind in case I'll ever be stuck without Opera
;-)

Thanks :-)


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