A
download manager is a computer program dedicated to the task of downloading of
various files. There are various download managers in Linux like FatRat, Uget,
and multiget. Apart from all these download managers the most widely used download
manager of Linux is FlareGet.
Fig1: FlareGet Logo
FlareGet
manger is the full featured manager. It is the multi threaded and multi-segment
downloads manager and accelerator. FlareGet provides the following features:
1) Http Pipelining:
With
the file segmentation dynamically, each of the segment is accelerated for up to
6 times.
2) Support from multiple protocols:
It
supports HTTPS, FTP and HTTPS.
3) Intelligently managing files:
FlareGet
manages the file intelligently. It categorizes the files as per their
extensions. All downloads are then grouped in various folders as per their
categories.
4) Resume support:
Downloads can be paused and then can
be later resumed. It also automatically retries when a segment or download
fails.
5) Flash video download:
One click flash video download from
most of the sites is supported for all the browsers.
6)
Smart Scheduler:
You can easily schedule FlareGet to
download files automatically. It allows starting and pausing downloading
files at the set time.
7)
Adding and removing segments:
One can add or remove download
segments dynamically without interrupting the download.
8)
Automatic Segmentation:
When one segment ends, it starts
another segment to help terminate another segment faster.
9)
Dynamic File Segmentation:
It uses a robust dynamic file
segmentation algorithm to speed up the download. It supports up to 32 segments
per download.
10) Monitoring of the
Clipboards:
No need to copy paste your download
links, it monitors your clipboard.
11) Downloading Limits :
You can limit the number of simultaneous downloads,
when one download ends, another starts automatically.
12) Advanced Browser
Integration(ABI):
The only download manager for Linux
which integrates with all the browsers to snatch away downloads URL and start
the download by itself. It does this magic without any addons.
13) Multi linguistic
support:
FlareGet is being translated into
many languages, currently English, Arabic, Italiano, Chinese (Simplified),
Spanish, French, Czech, Bengali and Portuguese are available.
Here are few screen shots for the same.
Fig 5:screenshot4
Important Characteristics of
FlareGet are:
1.
Acceleration:
FlareGet can accelerate a file download with
its acceleration servers. So you can always expect better download speeds than
while downloading through your web browser.
2.
Segmented File Download:
Before downloading a file, you can select the
number of segments you want to split the file while downloading, when a file is
split while downloading, it increases the download speed as well as saves the
file from being damaged in case of a power failure or internet connection
problem.
3. Better
File Management:
All the downloaded files are
separated into different folders according to their type so that finding them
won't be a hassle.
On searching in this we get to see the following icon.
Fig 6: FlareGet icon
Linux
Mint and other Linux can download FlareGet from flare Get’s website:
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