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FlashGot was an add-on for Firefox that allowed interoperability between the Firefox browser and external download managers. It is no longer compatible with later versions of Firefox. It is not itself a download manager but is designed to allow the Firefox interface to be extended to connect to the selected external download manager.
Browser extension Firefox Firefox for Android Cookie AutoDelete: Yes Yes Decentraleyes: Yes Yes DownThemAll! Yes No FoxyProxy Standard: Yes Yes HTTPS Everywhere
This comparison contains download managers, and also file sharing applications that can be used as download managers (using the http, https and ftp-protocol). For pure file sharing applications see the Comparison of file sharing applications .
A download manager manages files being downloaded from the internet. [1] Download managers break down files into multiple chunks for faster download speeds and allocate resources for downloading multiple items simultaneously. [2] Failed downloads can also be restarted from a download manager. [3]
Firefox for Maemo Beta 5, released in 2009, was the first version to have the official Firefox branding, with the Firefox name and logo. [ 17 ] Fennec uses the Gecko engine ; for example, version 1.0 used the same engine as Firefox 3.6 , and the following release, 4.0, shared core code with Firefox 4.0 .
All versions of DownThemAll! below 4.0 are incompatible with Firefox 57 or above (Quantum). Version 4.0 transitioned the codebase from XUL/XPCOM to WebExtensions (HTML/CSS/JS/WASM). [11] The first 4.0 beta version was released August 21, 2019. [12] On September 1, 2019, DownThemAll! 4.0 was released, supporting Firefox Quantum. [13]
Some download managers, such as FlashGet and GetRight, are BitTorrent-ready. Opera 12, a web browser, can also transfer files via BitTorrent. In 2013 Thunder Networking Technologies publicly revealed that some of their employees surreptitiously distributed a Trojan horse with certain releases of Xunlei, the company's BitTorrent-ready download ...
In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL). Firefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK [6] so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion ...