Free Download Manager (FDM) is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application, a full-featured download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. FDM allows you to download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never! With FDM you needn't start the downloading from the beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the place where it have been interrupted. Also this program warns you if some servers don't support download resuming. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money.

Free Download Manager never downloads the whole file at once. It splits files into several sections and then downloads them at the same time allowing you to increase your download speed up to 600%. Free Download Manager can be used to organize your downloads, set the connection, launch the programs. Features of the download manager include: easy integration with Internet Explorer and Opera, powerful scheduler, antivirus integration, adjusting traffic usage, resuming downloads, downloading complete websites, http/ftp/bittorrent support...

FEATURES:
• GNU General Public License. Free Download Manager is released under GNU Public License!
• Bittorrent support. Download files using Bittorrent protocol.
• Upload manager: easy way to share your files. Upload your files or folders easily to share them with other users.
• Flash video download. Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.
• Remote Control. Create new downloads or view the list of active and completed downloads remotely, via the internet.
• Portable mode. If you want to use Free Download Manager on different computers, you can easily create its portable version and avoid the need to install and configure the program on each computer.
• Enhanced audio/video files support. Preview audio/video files before download is completed and convert file format after download.
• Absolutely free and 100% safe. Free Download Manager is free, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
• Download acceleration. Free Download Manager splits files into several sections and downloads them simultaneously, allowing you to use any type of connection at the maximum available speed. With FDM download speed increases, or even more!
• Resuming broken downloads. When the downloading process is interrupted, you needn't start from the beginning again. Free Download Manager can resume broken download from where it was interrupted saving your time, nerves and money.
• Smart file management and powerful scheduler. With FDM you can easily organize downloaded files by their type, placing them in predefined folders. A smart scheduler allows you to start and pause downloading files, as well as perform other actions (launch other applications, establish or hang up connection, etc.) at the set time.
• Adjusting traffic usage. There are several traffic usage modes. You can adjust traffic usage for browsing the Internet and downloading files at the same time.
• Site Explorer. Site Explorer lets you view the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.
• HTML Spider. You can download whole web pages or even whole web sites with HTML Spider. The tool can be adjusted to download files with specified extensions only.
• Simultaneous downloading from several mirrors. Free Download Manager is able to download files from several mirrors simultaneously.
• Zip files partial download. Free Download Manager lets you download only the necessary part of a zip file.
• Active spyware and adware protection through active communication among users. You can read what other community members say about the file you are going to download, right in the program window, and also leave your own opinion about the file you downloaded. In this way FDM users are always warned against useless or malicious files.
• Multi language support. Free Download Manager is translated into 30 languages. To translate the program into your native language, you only need to download one of the language files available in the Download section.

Works on Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista (32bit versions only)

Supported languages: Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Croatian, Korean, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese, Czech, German, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek, Greek, Vietnamese, Slovenian

Changes in version 2.5 build 703:
[+] Indication of the process of reserving of disk space for file (useful for large downloads)
[-] Sometimes files may be damaged (last byte was 0).
[-] Some bugs when downloading files > 2GB.

Homepage:

Size: 5.33 MB

thank for update

it is now better than orbit manager.

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Sep 5 2007, 08:37 PM

wrong version.

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Sep 20 2007, 07:11 PM

Changes in version 2.5 build 711:
[-] Sometimes name of file was not detected correctly (HTTP)
[-] Bug when server returns incorrect response with resume data
[-] Sometimes sort of downloads list did not work

another software that can be use to download instead Internet Download Manager

Changes in version 2.5 build 711:
[-] Sometimes name of file was not detected correctly (HTTP)
[-] Bug when server returns incorrect response with resume data
[-] Sometimes sort of downloads list did not work

at least, free download manager is free what.

Free Download Manager 2.5.715 is released (sep 28th)

thank for sharing dude..

Free Download Manager 2.5.718 released

download Free Download Manager 2.5 build 721 @ here (Oct 20, 2007)

The latest now will launch..thank for sharing..

Free Download Manager 2.5 Build 724
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/fdminst.exe

Changes in version 2.5 build 731:
[-] Downloads from Internet Explorer did not work sometimes
[+] Youtube subdomains support
[-] Sometimes bug when importing downloads
[+] "Set default download folder" button
[*] Interface improvement for results window of create batch download window.
[-] Fix for youtube.com
[-] Groups was not imported from versions earlier than 2.3
[*] Interface improvement for FDM's data folder settings window
[*] Improved start time for large downloads
[-] Interface bug fix for Bittorrent downloads.
[*] Improved "launch" and "open folder" commands for Bittorrent downloads.
[-] Crash while downloading Bittorrent downloads with large comment fields.
[-] Bug after setting by default the folder without back slash at the end.
[-] Sometimes 100% CPU load while downloading via Bittorrent
[-] Sometimes crash while checking if the download is malicious
[-] Sometimes downloads may not start automatically if there were some finished bt downloads in the top of list
[-] Perform virus check menu didn't work sometimes
[-] Video preview was broken
[-] Bug when using mirrors for downloading file with size >2GB
[-] "Upload" context menu in Explorer did not remove after uninstallation
[-] Sometimes FDM may make network problems while downloading via Bittorrent
[-] Sometimes FDM may freeze with 100% CPU usage while downloading Bittorrent downloads.
[*] Singnificant improve of speed of downloading for Bittorrent

Homepage - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org

Size: 5.47 MB

Changes in version 2.5 build 735:
[*] Performance speed optimizations for Bittorrent downloads
[-] Sometimes downloads can't be downloaded from Site Explorer
[-] "Not completed+Recent" filter shown too old downloads
[-] Downloads list sorting bug
[-] Some bugs of FDM's Bittorrent downloads

is this the same wit internet download manager ?
seriously i tried IDM , and its the best i can say ..
but this might be better ..

I thought that this FDM software has no update because everytime i press the check for update button it will say that mine is the latest. only then when i checked at the FDM website that i know that there is an update, and whats more is that i just realize that im using the very old one...hehehe.

thanks for the info super macgyver, i am going to update my FDM now.

Changes in version 2.5 build 738:
[+] Firefox 3 support.
[+] Netscape 9 support.
[-] Interface bug in Bittorent settings.
[*] Uploader's integration components were removeda.

Thanks for the updates...