On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Kam Leo wrote: >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 Got it, thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "You show me an American who can keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him." -- Newspaperman from Frank Capra's _Meet_John_Doe_
