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Submitted by Samer on September 17, 2006 – 10:33 am10 Comments

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Flashget is the an award winning download manager and in my view the best Windows download manager hands down. What’s more, it recently became FREEWARE!

Rating: 55 Star Rating 

Version tested: 1.73

Freewaregenius 5-Star PickI’ve been using this software for years and cannot recommend it enough. You can expect to:

  • Speed up your downloads
  • Have the ability to pause/resume downloads
  • Manage your downloads, inlcuding control download speeds and define alternate download URLs
  • The recent version also supports flash (swf) downloads.
  • Upcoming versions (1.80 and above) will feature support for Bittorent downloads.

Note: This version of Flashget “calls home”, which is apparently related to the ShareURL mirror service. This is a URL sharing service that helps users simultaneously downloading a file to speed up their downloads. If you do not want this you can turn off this service from Options > Mirrors.

Go to the download page for the latest version. The program home page.

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