Firefox dnload manager sux

[Michael Hipp]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:42 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> I use bittorrent when possible.
>>
>> Failing that, wget always gets the job done.
> 
> Thanks all, now is there a way to get Firefox to use one of those to
> begin with?? Some setting somewhere? Ric

Not really.

But there are quite a number of extensions that offer to enhance the download 
experience in FF.

Here's the whole list:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:5

Here are 3 that look promising:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/27
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/435

I haven't used any of them and some of these sorts of "contributed" extensions 
available for FF work great and others don't.

Preaching: it would be worth your time, IMHO, to learn to use wget and 
bittorrent from the command line. The payoff is considerable. And I'm saying 
this as a recovering GUIholic.

Michael