Jan 15, 2008
FireFox Add-On: DownloadThemAll!
Just wanted to let you know about a very cool FireFox extension called DownloadThemAll! It is a download manager / accelerator that is built right into FireFox. It has contextual menus so that you can right click a link and immediately start downloading, or you can queue up downloads, etc. While that is neat, the feature that I was looking for was the acceleration. By downloading multiple chunks of a file at the same time, the overall speed of your download is greatly increased.
I started downloading a 1.76GB game demo and I.E. was giving me 50K / sec download. 50K ??? What the heck? So, I looked for an accelerator that would fit in the browser. After installing DownloadThemAll! ? I was getting anywhere from 400 – 1800K / sec. Dang! Pretty nice speed boost. I left mine on the default 5 parts at a time so as to not be too rude to the file server. In fact, check out this screen cap of sustained 1.7 megabytes per second download:
DownloadThemAll rocks!
Of course, your mileage may vary based on your Internet connection, file size, server speed, network congestion, black cat crossing your path or gremlins on the wire. Still, I’m pretty happy with this little piece of software. The price sure was right: FREE!
Yeah I used that once to download the entire font site 1001 freefonts! It did it in only an hour! Amazing!
Hello!
I think this try.
Tried this plugin. I lurv it
Yeah, isn’t it great!? Welcome to my Blog – thanks for the comment!
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COOL!!!!!!!!!!! my download is always slow!! and always say 1-100 days! but now i found out this!!!!! COOL!
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amazingly, this program works remarkably well. went from 30kb/s to around 1MB/s
I agree – it IS amazing… And, its free! That’s what blows my mind… Thanks for dropping a note!
Dude! has any one told you how AWESOME you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um, thanks! hahaha…
you should make an addon called UploadThemAll
if you already have im stupid 
Heh… Good idea! I wish I could take credit for this awesome plugin, but alas I’m just a fan, not the maker! That distinction goes to Federico Parodi, Nils Maier and Stefano Verna. They get the kudos!