On 3/14/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: >On Wednesday 14 March 2007 22:49, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: >> Em Qua 14 Mar 2007, Nigel Henry escreveu: >> > KDE's Konquerors default downloader is terrible. You lose the >> > Internet connection, or have a power out, and you've lost the >> > download. Kget doesn't have these problems. I can cut the >> > connection to the Internet, then reconnect, and Kget will continue >> > with the download where it left off. Same goes if I get a power >> > outage. >> > >> > With Firefox you can pause the download, as long as you still have >> > an Internet connection, then resume it, but if you lose your >> > Internet connection, or suffer a power outage you lose all the >> > download with no way to resume. >> > >> > I'm on dialup, so losing 120MB of a 121MB download is not funny. >> > And having to start from scratch is annoying to say the least. >> > >> > Does anyone know of any program similar to Kget that will work with >> > Firefox? >> >> You may use Kget itself. Install the Flashgot extension for Firefox >> and it will offer you the option to choose any installed download >> manager (including kget) when downloading a file. >> >> []'s >> Marcelo > >Job done. Many thanks Marcelo. Flashgot has done it. I've just cut the >Internet connection from a download on firefox, reconnected, and it's > just resumed as it does with Kget and Konqueror. > >Nigel. Mmm, well gee now, using smart --gui, neither of those two packages are available, and extras is enabled. Ideas anyone?
It's a Mozilla add-on. Get it from: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/220
Cheers, Gene
