Free Download Manager Portable 3.9 has been released. Free Download Manager is a download manager and optimizer with resume support. It features community opinions, torrent support, flash video downloading and more. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
Free Download Manager is a comprehensive download manager with support for bandwidth optimization, pause and resume, torrent files, flash video downloads, and lots more.
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Portability Notes
Free Download Manager (FDM) Portable has some important issues to keep in mind in terms of portability that differ from other portable apps. These issues include:
- DOWNLOAD LOCATION - FDM Portable will default to X:\Downloads as the location for any files you download by default. You can alter this by right-clicking each folder (Music, Other, Software, Video) and entering a new location. The string %sdrive% in the location indicates the current drive letter X:\ and should be left there with your selected path including it. The only time it is recommended that you alter this string is if you are running FDM Portable from a synced cloud drive (like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) in which case it is recommended that you use %userprofile% so that it will remain in your synced drive across PCs. This would be in the form %userprofile%\Google Drive, %userprofile%\Documents\My Dropbox or similar.
- BROWSER INTEGRATION - Browser integration is disabled by default in the portable version as it can cause your drive to be unable to eject when a local browser is still using the extensions or plugins that FDM provides them. It is recommended you only integrate it with your portable browser (FDM has built-in support for Firefox Portable when you enable it) or ensure you close your local browser before closing FDM Portable. You can adjust these settings within Options - Settings - Downloads - Monitoring.
- FLASH VIDEO DOWNLOADING - Video downloading is disabled by default for similar reasons to browser integration. You can enable it with the same precautions. You can adjust these settings within Options - Settings - Downloads - Flash Video.
- OPINIONS - The Opinions tab is available but not focused by default during/after downloads due to the fact that it is not portable. You will be using the local Internet Explorer browser for any pages you view or submit within this tab, which will leave traces behind. It can be re-enabled by default within Options - Settings - Downloads.
Note that Free Download Manager can not run from UNC network paths.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Free Download Manager Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Free Download Manager Portable is available for immediate download from the Free Download Manager Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
The name of this program is
The name of this program is just plain suspicious, but it's legit and a great download manager that I use from time to time for larger files.
Glad to see a portable version, will be adding it to my library right away.
What about the Lite version?
FDM also has a Lite version. Is this it or did you not portabilize it?
Flash Video
For the ones that want to Download Flash Video I recommend using FlashGot. FlashGot is a Firefox extension that lets you use what ever download manager you want from the built in download manager to any external program that you want to use. Happy Downloading!!
John, Thank you for giving us another great addition.
Does not work with my FFPortable 17.0.1
I'm on my desktop with Win XP and i tried to make FDMportable work with FFportable and neither the Browser Integration nor the Flash video downloading works.
I just saw that it says the FDM plugin is disabled because it is incompatible with Firefox 17.0.1
I tried to update but there were no updates.
See Here
This post will have to be in a number of parts, instead of a single post due to the spam filter on these boards blocking the full post (presumably it does not like the URL's I post).
Part #1:
See here for why the FDM add-on was blocked with Firefox 17:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i216
Part #2
This is the actual problem report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789700
Part #3
There are two versions of the FDM add-on - v1.5.7.5 from the official Firefox add-on's page (AMO), and v1.5.7.6, which is supposed to have been released to the AMO page shortly after it was blocked, but is currently only available if you install the Beta version of FDM 3.9.1:
(I'd put the link here, but the spam filter blocks it totally. Go to the FDM homepage, click the forums link, then the General Forum, and it is one of the sticky posts)
Part #4
As PAF does not usually do Beta versions, we will all just have to wait until FDM 3.9.1 goes final (though it has been in Beta for ages, there may be some doubt if it is actually still being developed).
For further info on the add-on issues, read the two page thread on the Firefox plugin on the FDM forums:
(Again, I'd paste the link here, but the spam filter totally blocks the post when I do)
Especially the bottom post on page 1, and the following posts on page 2.