Free Download Manager Turns OpenSource
Free Download Manager is a full-featured download accelerator
and download manager.You can download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.It can resume broken downloads and resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted.It comes in version the fully featured and the Lite version which does not have any plugins like BitTorrent support, video conversion and upload manager that can be downloaded and installed as plugins later.
Features :
- Free Download Manager is free, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
- Upload Manager : Upload your files or folders easily to share them with other users.
- Flash Video Download : Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.
- Portable Mode : Easily create its portable version and use it on different systems.
- Bit Torrent Support : Download files using BitTorrent protocol (available in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista).Preview audio/video files before download is completed.
- Convert downloaded video files after download.
- HTML Spider : Download whole web pages or even whole web sites with HTML Spider. The tool can be adjusted to download files with specified extensions only.
- Site Explorer :View the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.
Download Free Download Manager (5.33 MB ) ver.2.5
Download Free Download Manager Lite ( 1.9 MB) ver.2.5
Plugins for FDM Lite version:
- Video Conversion plugin (2,6 Mb, setup)
- Bittorrent plugin (865 Kb, setup)
- Uploads plugin (504 Kb, setup)
- Languages pack (686 Kb, setup)








that looks like a very powerful download app, now it’s gone open source it should get some really good features added (it’s pretty packed now!)
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@Andy Lets hope few more such powerful get Open Source.