Orbit Downloader 4.0.0.11

Rated 50/50 by cartmanxxl at Jan 4, 2008

definitely the best download manager!!! there is just one thing to make it perfect (at least for me) - it's the integration with portable Firefox but I think it the question of time (maybe next release)

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Jan 5, 2008

The best! Way better than FDM. I use FF portable exclusively, with Orbit every day. Orbit is portable if you simply copy the folder. Copy ff portable & orbit folder to flash, uninstall orbit, put orbit in root of ff folder. Run ff, open flashgot options, point it to orbit. Done

Rated 30/50 by fuhayer at Jan 8, 2008

i have downloaded and tested the same link with the same condition with orbit and IDM and found: IDM is faster with better integration on browsers! just 3 starts are enough.

Rated 50/50 by why hello there at Jan 8, 2008

This is been my favorite downloader manager since trying it. Its simply fast.

Rated 50/50 by ljepava at Jan 29, 2008

use oget to integrate download manager with opera. http://lexi.ucoz.ru/

Rated 40/50 by Betachecker at Jan 29, 2008

Very nice program but I would love a better integration with Opera

Rated 50/50 by elopez17 at Jan 29, 2008

You could be right fuhayer, but there is a tiny little point you forgot, FREE or $26.95

Rated 50/50 by aruprc at Feb 21, 2008

Excellent, gets better with every build. Love its Youtube video grabber.

Rated 40/50 by tatool at Feb 21, 2008

still no move up/down buttons on toolbar... so "only" **** for now ;-)

Rated 30/50 by Ian C. at Feb 22, 2008

Data layout is still very poor, hard to tell anything useful about your download other than the amount completed and current speed. And recently the Grab++ has gotten buggy, it won't sniff anything unless I start it before I start my browser. Both very annoying issues, but good aside from that. If VisualWget gets a sniffer, I may stop using this all together.

Rated 40/50 by DJHasis at Feb 26, 2008

Works for me thought the GUI is rather ugly but even the grab++ finds things from a webpage if I reload the page after grab++ has been started.

Rated 40/50 by spiked at Mar 21, 2008

Overall, my favorite downloader but many little annoying bugs are long ignored by the developer. For example, you cannot specify a UNC path to save a file, despite being able to browse to it. You can use a mapped drive, and you can move the file to a UNC path from within Orbit after downloading, but the stupid Add dialog just won't accept a UNC path. Reported and confirmed multiple times in the forums but never fixed, just one of many UI limitations like the missing up/down toolbar buttons which wouldn't be so bad if you could use the up/down options on the right-click context menu when selecting multiple files. Alas, those options are only available when 1 file is selected. Supports grouping download history by category but forget about specifying the category when you add the download (the ideal time); you have to wait until the download finishes (which might be hours or days later; after all, that's why you're using a download manager to begin with) so I hope you remembered to enter a comment to remind yourself what category "setup.exe" belongs in! Of course, you'd override a filename like setup.exe, right? Better do it before you add it to the queue because you can't change it while queued (even if paused); again, gotta wait until after download. Orbit supports a pipe-delimited text file import format which optionally allows specifying the http referer, cookies, and comment. Unfortunately, the corresponding export only gives you the URL.

Rated 50/50 by rotjong at Mar 22, 2008

For a freeware product this is great. I used GetRight for many many years due to not finding another program that I liked. I stumbled across Orbit and it's wonderful. Of course it has its issues here and there but that doesn't detract from how great it is.

Rated 50/50 by trynow at Mar 24, 2008

I love this software.Very nice downloader.

Rated 50/50 by Psychocrusha at Mar 25, 2008

This may not be the fastest download manager, but it is my favorite. I've used lots of them, but this one seems to work exactly the way I would want my manager to work on the pickiest detail.

Rated 50/50 by prabinpebam at Mar 25, 2008

After trying out quite a few other downloaders, I've finally settled with orbit. It's the best I've come across till now. I'm just looking forward to the developers making few minor modifications to the software like putting a multiple selection option in the Grab++ window just like the one you have in the "Choose the URL you want to download" window. I'm talking about the "switch choosing state" check box u see when u r importing a list of download. I can't help wishing this software had a webcrawler also. Please look into that also. All the best!!

Rated 40/50 by some guy at Apr 3, 2008

are you sure you don't have automatic update on ?

Rated 10/50 by € at Apr 3, 2008

this is advertised as adware and spyware-free but calls home at every startup: oblogin.rep.orbitdownloader.com (64.71.134.242) Privacy concerns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_downloader this behaviour didn't change since several versions and likely won't change in the future. and this has nothing to do with automatic update. unusable crap - low rating!

Rated 50/50 by newuser2 at May 8, 2008

@cartmanxxl: There is a simple way to integrate Orbit with Portable Firefox. See: http://portableapps.com/node/13122

Rated 30/50 by anomoly at Jun 10, 2008

There is a simple way to integrate Orbit with Portable Firefox. yeah it's called flashgot options Currently I am using MiniDM.exe (IE7Pro2.3) with ff portable 3 RC.... Orbit had a bad habit of simply faltering on too many downs. I use it only for the grab++ (unless there is an improvement here) we'll see. Good for a minute then back to the same ol s*** of faltering. At least grab+ works