Downloader similar to Kget for Firefox
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 14 21:42:05 UTC 2007
Nigel Henry wrote:
> KDE's Konquerors default downloader is terrible. You lose the Internet
> connection, or have a power out, and you've lost the download. Kget doesn't
> have these problems. I can cut the connection to the Internet, then
> reconnect, and Kget will continue with the download where it left off. Same
> goes if I get a power outage.
>
> With Firefox you can pause the download, as long as you still have an Internet
> connection, then resume it, but if you lose your Internet connection, or
> suffer a power outage you lose all the download with no way to resume.
>
> I'm on dialup, so losing 120MB of a 121MB download is not funny. And having to
> start from scratch is annoying to say the least.
>
> Does anyone know of any program similar to Kget that will work with Firefox?
>
Gwget with the Firefox extension? It is in Fedora Extras
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/
Rahul
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