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Video DownloadHelper is an extension for Firefox and Chrome web browsers. It allows the user to download videos from sites that stream videos through HTTP. The extension was developed by Michel Gutierrez.
As with any download manager, the main feature of older versions of DTA is parallel or multithreaded downloading. This allows the user to download the file in pieces, then combine the pieces after a completed download. This increases the download speed when connected to a slow server. [5]
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 .
Browser extension Free license Dependencies WebExt Rec. [2] Category ... Download manager A download manager and accelerator. FoxyProxy Standard: GPL-2.0: No No Yes
A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet, which may be built into a web browser, or as a standalone program.
ClipGrab is a donationware [2] video download manager, allowing the download of videos from a variety of websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or Facebook.It has been praised for its user-friendliness, but also flagged as malware by security software.
Free Download Manager is proprietary software, but was free and open-source software between versions 2.5 [6] and 3.9.7. Starting with version 3.0.852 (15 April 2010), the source code was made available in the project's Subversion repository instead of being included with the binary package.
FlashGet can be integrated with web browsers such as Avant Browser, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Maxthon and SeaMonkey. It can download a sequence of files and it can download a file from multiple locations. It can split files to download into sections, and download each section simultaneously.