wxDownload Fast Portable 0.6 has been released. wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source, multi-platform download manager. It is a multi-threaded download manager, which means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.
Features
- Faster downloads (with Segmented/Multi-threaded/Accelerated transfers)
- Download resuming (Pause and restart where you stopped)
- Download scheduling
- Organizes files you have already downloaded
- View server messages (HTTP, FTP, file://). No HTTPS support.
- Available in multiple languages and easily translated. Now available in Portuguese [Brazil], Spanish, English, German, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian and Dutch
- Connection to HTTP/FTP servers which require a password
- Calculates the MD5/SHA1 checksum of downloaded files so they can be easily verified
- Metalink support
- Can be used over proxy servers(HTTP proxy support)
Learn more about wxDownload Fast...
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
wxDownload Fast Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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wxDownload Fast Portable is available for immediate download from the wxDownload Fast Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Thanks
Thanks for this. The source code link is broken though. The correct link is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Source/wxDownloadFast/
Thank You!
Thank You for this great App.
WinWGet is incompatible with WIN7?
John, can you clarify your comment about WinWGet's incompatibility with Windows 7? I've been using WinWGet Portable with Windows 7 x64 without any problems. In fact, I prefer WinWGet to wxDownload Fast. The former supports input files the latter does not. If you have a lot of files to download you have to enter each url manually in wxDownload Fast. Please keep PortableApps.com's support for WinWGet Portable. Thanks.
Stwum, wxDownload Fast can
Stwum, wxDownload Fast can configured with Firefox with Flashgot addon & u can automatically download without pasting links.
Not for me
I've been unable to get WinWGet portable or local running on Win7 since it came out. Are you running in compatibility mode?
No, I'm not running it in
No, I'm not running it in compatibility mode. Have other users confirmed that they are also having problems with using WinWGet Portable in WIN7?
Another Shot
The portable version does not work for me on multiple Win7 boxes. The local one works on one but not the other. I'll take another look at it later this week.
WinWGet has issues here on WinXP too
I don't think it's the same issues as JTH has, as it starts up fine for me, but on at least 1 Windows XP machine (SP3) it passes WGet different arguments than it should based on the information supplied in the interface, and thus errors out and won't download anything.
So I just don't use it. (DownThemAll downloads faster, and I often have FireFox open anyway. I'll try wxDownloadFast for when I don't have FF open though :))
Looking for one.
Thank you for this app. Looking for a portable download manager. This one looks good. Would be better if has more options. But cant expect more from a free & open source software.
entry 'password' appears more than once in group '/config'
entry 'password' appears more than once in group '/config'
file 'wxDonloadFast.ini' and entry 'name' ; index ; and so on...
after download don't add the server's date (WinWGet after download modifying the "created/last modified" date)
but works with some unwanted messages and don't possible to change interface language
unable to change interface
unable to change interface language: confirmed
Confirmed
I am not able to change the language from the GUI or from the PA.c Platform
Finally a download manager
Was tired of plugins and besides anything else it broke the philosophy of open source meaning you needed to use a certain browser whereas with this it is standalone.
This was really lacking but now the world has changed yet again.
Cheers!
Multiple instances
Anyone tried to get this running with multiple instances enabled?
UPX compression
when using the PA.c app compacter if you select "brute" and then recompress WXDownloadFast it compresses it quite a bit moreI got if from 8.Xmb to a mere 3.0mb, and it works perfectly fine.
Possible Issues
The problem with brute is that it can have issues on some Windows systems/versions and is more likely to break something small within the app that escapes initial analysis. It is also more likely to be tagged a false positive by some antivirus apps. So, while we make the option available in the PA.c AppCompactor for individual use, we don't use it for official releases.
Thank You
Thanks for the explanation of this I was just trying to get a handle of UPX, since I have only used it a few times before. I was just curious why it was that brute wasn't used instead, now I fully understand why
-EDIT-
Even after decompressing the files from WxDownloadFastPortable making it 8810kb again I compressed it using NRV2E(default) the size was cut down to 4272kb, and still runs in Windows XP and Linux::Wine just as smoothly