Opinions Please: Five Download Managers

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Darren Harris

After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert

I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
1 vote for Fresh Download
| After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
| that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
| following:
|
| 1)Go!zilla
| 2)Fresh
| 3)Mozilla
| 4)Stardownloader
| 5)DLExpert
|
| I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
| system.
|
| Thanks a lot.
|
| Darren Harris
| Staten Island, New York.
 
(e-mail address removed)2.com (Darren Harris) wrote in
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert

I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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I like Stardownloader the most. Been using it a long time, win98, 98se,
me and now xp. Never had problems. :) I've used all you've mentioned
except mozilla, SD is my choice.
 
Darren Harris said:
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert

I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Gozilla has spyware in it or use to.. Fresh works pretty well but it use to
be kind of complicated to work with.. I am not familar with a couple of the
others.

I use Download Accelerator Plus but I know that is a no no to post here as
it is nag wear and adware. Although Spybot will remove nicely the ads and
then it is not bad to use...

Fresh I have heard some good things about....
 
I like Stardownloader the most. Been using it a long time, win98, 98se,
me and now xp. Never had problems. :) I've used all you've mentioned
except mozilla, SD is my choice.
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Seconded!
 
I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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I like Stardownloader the most. Been using it a long time, win98, 98se,
me and now xp. Never had problems. :) I've used all you've mentioned
except mozilla, SD is my choice.
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I use Star Downloader. Another good feature about it is keeping the
downloads (until you delete them) readily available should you need to
re-install them.

Helen
 
Darren said:
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert
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Dunno but I'd avoid Gozilla.
Look for true freeware one.
 
olfart said:
1 vote for Fresh Download
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(I'm not the original poster.) I tried Fresh Download recently. After
three weeks it said the trial period was over, so I removed it. I was
already bothered that there didn't seem an option not to use it - that
is, with an iffy dialup connection I need a downloader that can resume
where it left off, but at the same time I don't want one at all for
small files.
 
(e-mail address removed)2.com (Darren Harris) wrote in
1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert
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I don't know how Mozilla can be classified as a download manager. It's
actually an Internet browser.
 
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert

I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Hi Darren I vote for StarDownloader, especially after GetRight kept
begging me for more donations, Stardownloader works as well if not
better..just my opinion, James
 
(e-mail address removed)2.com (Darren Harris) wrote in
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert

I am looking for one that will not tend to wreck havok with my Win98
system.
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I narrowed your search from 6 to 1 :)

MetaProducts Download Express 1.5.206 Beta 1
http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Downloads_Beta.asp

You can't beat the speed and stability.
Trash the others. Try something an adult would use :)
 
After searching, I came up with five download managers, and was hoping
that I could get opinions on the best free download managers from the
following:

1)Go!zilla
2)Fresh
3)Mozilla
4)Stardownloader
5)DLExpert
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This ng has had several threads on downloaders. Some thoughtful
discussion can be found amongst the "me too"/"I use"/OT-flame posts.
Googling newsgroups might be enlightening if you haven't already.

Fabulous Freeware has a small feature comparison that compares 6 free
download managers. Their favorite: Star Downloader.
http://fabfree.av-services.net/download.html

In June, PC Magazine published a feature and performance comparison of
ten download managers (mostly upgrade/premium commercial versions)
that includes freeware. Star was clearly rated higher than Fresh.
(For comparison table choose "Click here to view the Scorecard
results.")
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1094855,00.asp

"On our speed tests, Star Downloader 1.42 tied for first place. Its
feature set, while not as rich as some, is adequate, and it's free.
The one feature we miss is the ability to store site-specific user
name/password pairs, but not everyone requires this."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1094919,00.asp

If you can tolerate flashing ads (or carefully filter) and downloads
that don't start until you select a destination name, FlashGet has
much better IE integration, bandwidth sharing, category control, and
downloaded file updating than Star Downloader. I can't determine
how/why PC Mag determined some ratings of Star versus FlashGet.

This is one more illustration that particular features are weighted
differently by different people. As earlier posters said, just try
some yourself and see which one you like best. These above two sites
plus review of the Download Accelerator Plus Premium manual (as the
most feature rich choice) should provide you with a comprehensive set
of criteria for screening and eventually evaluating download managers
yourself.

N.B., read the comments on individual packages for corrections.

If nothing else, these two references might help you determine your
own evaluation criteria.

BillR

PS - On Topic explanation for certain rabid flamers
- FlashGet provides the basis for an absolutely On Topic illustration.
- DAP Premium is probably the most feature rich package. As such it
is the best source to review when developing criteria for comparison
and eventually noting shortcomings.
 
Odd. It works fine here with Netscape 6.1
I use the latest NS, IE, Opera, amd Mozilla for testing and haven't
had any problems.
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Sorry Mike, mis-read your post. I have not tested it with older ver.
browsers. Sorry to hear it's a problem for 4.x.
 
Paul Bowlay said:
Thirded! :)
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Fourthed!

Stardownloader is easy to use and understand, consumes few resources
(compared to some of the others I have tried), and doesn't give corrupted
downloads (one of the downloders did that to me).

I much prefer Star to any I've tried, bit I additionally use DLExpert for
sites that require authentication. It's not easy to figure out and it
takes a lot of tweaking to work correctly, but it has that one function I
need.
 
Antoine said:
Leechget was strangely forgotten is this test.
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To the OP: if you have trouble with system resources, you'll probably find
Leechget a resource hog. If that's not an issue, then it's a nice program.
 
BoB wrote on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:40:36 GMT
An angle not addressed that may be of interest is reg
entries:

1)Go!zilla 160
2)Fresh 213
3)Mozilla ?
4)Stardownloader ?
5)DLExpert 235
DLExpress 130
FlashGet 348
LeechGet ?

Moz not checked, Star and LeechGet long ago were to buggy
or leaky to bother with. Today's versions are obviously
better but haven't checked them.


BoB
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Until I moved to Firebird, I used DAP with the spyware taken
out by SpybotS&D.
Firebird has it's own (Mozilla I expect).
Apart from DAP, Leechget is the only one I know which searched
for alternative/faster sites which is useful on dialup, but
like someone said it hammers resources.
Had trouble with all the others integrating with MyIE2, which
was my favourite browser then.
 
[email protected] (BillR) said:
In June, PC Magazine published a feature and performance comparison of
ten download managers (mostly upgrade/premium commercial versions)
that includes freeware. Star was clearly rated higher than Fresh.
(For comparison table choose "Click here to view the Scorecard
results.")
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1094855,00.asp

"On our speed tests, Star Downloader 1.42 tied for first place. Its
feature set, while not as rich as some, is adequate, and it's free.
The one feature we miss is the ability to store site-specific user
name/password pairs, but not everyone requires this."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1094919,00.asp
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Thanks much for going to the trouble of posting this detailed
comparison information, Bill!
 
Odd. It works fine here with Netscape 6.1
I use the latest NS, IE, Opera, amd Mozilla for testing and haven't had any
problems.
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That's not what he said...read it again.
 
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