Firefox dnload manager sux

[Michael Hipp]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:31 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence. The above lines rankle just a
> bit.

> So, given the choice between a
> mouse-click or typing a 40 char command line... sometimes twice to
> correct a typo, which would YOU chose? It's a no-brainer for me. Ric

Sorry, it wasn't intended to rankle. What it was trying to say is something 
like...

"If ya want a good downloader these two are the best (wget and bittorrent) and 
since they work best from the command line then that's the best way to use them."

I've used quite a few GUI downloaders (GetRight is probably the best of them) 
but they all pale in comparision to the speed, elegance and reliability of 
typing w-g-e-t-space-<middle click>-enter.

The GUI is easy. But the CLI is deterministic. I tend to pick my poison 
according to the task at hand.

Michael