While I could create a FDM portable version by installing it first.. I do NOT want to install stuff, then create a portable version and then uninstall it — FDM, IMO, should perhaps simply just provide a portable zipped version or a portable option in the installer which I ran thru and it includes adding registry entries. However, its their software, they can do what they like with it.
Or you can just use universal extractor or zip for that matter if I remember correctly , and unzip the setup exe. I usually use The Free Download Manager. Sometimes I use wget to continue downloads that get interrupted in firefox. Free Download Manager logs your download activity to their own server ip A few years back I remember trying FDM and noticed thru currports that several strange ip addresses kicked in when downloading.
So, I decided to give it a whirl again with the current FDM version.. I then used Fiddle to check out more on what was happening. The IP Porn sites are hosted, and the somewhat popular GOTD is hosted by the company. There is activity to a php page and server before that page gets loaded that is hidden unless you track the activity of FDM.
In this case, you use the program and the price is data collection it seems. When I opened FDM, no outbound traffic was observed. Load the url and look at it. Note: I have automatic updates turned off, I do not use the mirrors option, I do have "display opinions when downloading" checked, I do not check downloads before downloading if they are malicious.. No other outbound connections are made except the actual downloads. No information about what I am doing is sent.
Also note that the address I captured FDM contacting is. Mozilla had one of these. The -c parameter should be mentioned to continue an interrupted download as should be the wgetrc file. DownThemAll for Firefox is the best of the best.
A free Firefox add-on, it supports multi-threaded downloads, pause and resume, and can download all media pictures, MP3s, etc. Used to use free download manager before migrating to win 7 now the only thing I can get to work is FF downloader. Internet Download Manager is the best. You can manually set it to detect which browser you are using as some managers only have a predefined set of supported browsers.
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Once a download job is started, you will see a small download window at the bottom right corner of your browser window, which blocks minimum amount of area from the web page you are currently viewing.
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When it finally complete, you will find the file downloaded to your Google Drive. If you are not sure about the result of the operation, you can go to your Google Drive either in webpage or in APP to see whether the target file is there or not.
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