With Download Statusbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26 you can delete the files when you are done installing, instead of waiting for Windows to do it on its own.

It may well work with Firefox 3 but Mozilla seem determined that users of the Beta shouldn’t be allowed to use extensions with it. Anyone who uses version 2 able to post a link to the .xpi file on here - its hidden if you use Beta 5.

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Expand the ‘advanced details’ section at the bottom to get to the Complete Version History link: http://blog.ffextensionguru.co.....-launched/

This is going to be ‘fixed’ in the new AMO 3.2.1 launch this coming week: http://blog.ffextensionguru.co.....ming-soon/

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From the server’s perspective, there is no substantial difference between someone using a download manager and you just being conveniently located near the server with the same connection.

Yes it will create 10x the connections, but those connections will be closed 10x quicker.

The HTTP spec allows for 3 concurrent connections, so you can still get massive speed increases even while being a good client.

Of course its all YMMV.

There used to one similar to this back in FF 1.x but it was never updated so I kinda forgot about it, thanks for the link unfortunately it doesn’t work with FF 3 Beta 4 yet.

It works, but only if you’ve have Firefox set to ignore the version requirements.

Not actually sure, but I can’t imagine it would affect them.

For some reason I’ve never really been big on using download managers. I know that you can really get some big speed increases as you’ve observed, but I don’t like having an extra application running in the background for that. It’s generally easier on the servers that I’m downloading from as well helping to keep them from getting overloaded.

StationStops: does Internet Download Manager download files to a temp location first too, so that when you “run” a file, it gets cleared from the temp location after? (that’s the advantage of this extension)

Thats when I tried ‘Internet Download Manager’ - it takes over downloads for Firefox and parallelizes all downloads (when it can, which is about 90% of the time).

Now most of my downloads happen at about 2.7 MEGABYTES per second.

Oh and it will sort your downloads any way you like, prevent you from re-downloading stuff you already have, handles resumes perfectly, and lets you run the download, or open its folder when its done.

I think there are other programs that do this to, but I don’t remember which ones I have tried.

I heartily suggest you review it, its very much in the Cybernet niche.