← Back to context Comment by felixfurtak 1 day ago Who remembers Getright?https://www.getright.com/ 20 comments felixfurtak Reply airstrike 1 day ago Let us also not forget Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) and DownThemAllhttp://s3.speedbit.com/freeupgrade/upgfree93.asphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll! Doohickey-d 17 hours ago And Internet Download Manager, they're also still selling it:https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ mrheosuper 13 hours ago And still being updated, in fact, the rate of updating is surprisingly fast, which makes me suspicious of LLM in action. sippingabonedry 1 day ago First thing I thought of.Browsers are universally dogshit at large downloads.I'm shocked to learn it's still around, but it hasn't been updated since Windows 7? The page is a warp zone to 2010.There is still a place for download managers, especially with Mozilla throwing 50% of their effort at rounding corners. swed420 1 day ago Ladybird might offer a ray of hope on that front:https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/> Downloads can now be paused and resumed, and survive a browser restart, when the server supports it (#10932). We also download over four parallel connections where possible. jkahrs595 1 day ago I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going. 2 replies → ciupicri 10 hours ago Download over four parallel connections to the same server?! solenoid0937 17 hours ago These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!? 2 replies → 1ark 1 day ago It was essential and so great! How can it still exist. SXX 1 day ago That website reminds me of US Robotics Courier 56K :-) elromulous 16 hours ago Yes! And Go!Zilla! rrr_oh_man 1 day ago I always used Download Accelerator Plus (which, shockingly, received updates until last year!) andrewshadura 17 hours ago Back in the Windows days: FlashGet! Razengan 20 hours ago Exactly what I thought when I saw this title, and whenever I try to download something from a browser:JetCar, FlashGet etc solved this shit 1000 years ago, wtf hasn't any browser figured it out?Or is this is some sort of lobbying by Big Data to make us lose our gigabytes? I honestly wouldn't be surprisedMaybe AI could recreate download managers of yore.. carabiner 1 day ago omg
airstrike 1 day ago Let us also not forget Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) and DownThemAllhttp://s3.speedbit.com/freeupgrade/upgfree93.asphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll! Doohickey-d 17 hours ago And Internet Download Manager, they're also still selling it:https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ mrheosuper 13 hours ago And still being updated, in fact, the rate of updating is surprisingly fast, which makes me suspicious of LLM in action.
Doohickey-d 17 hours ago And Internet Download Manager, they're also still selling it:https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ mrheosuper 13 hours ago And still being updated, in fact, the rate of updating is surprisingly fast, which makes me suspicious of LLM in action.
mrheosuper 13 hours ago And still being updated, in fact, the rate of updating is surprisingly fast, which makes me suspicious of LLM in action.
sippingabonedry 1 day ago First thing I thought of.Browsers are universally dogshit at large downloads.I'm shocked to learn it's still around, but it hasn't been updated since Windows 7? The page is a warp zone to 2010.There is still a place for download managers, especially with Mozilla throwing 50% of their effort at rounding corners. swed420 1 day ago Ladybird might offer a ray of hope on that front:https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/> Downloads can now be paused and resumed, and survive a browser restart, when the server supports it (#10932). We also download over four parallel connections where possible. jkahrs595 1 day ago I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going. 2 replies → ciupicri 10 hours ago Download over four parallel connections to the same server?! solenoid0937 17 hours ago These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!? 2 replies →
swed420 1 day ago Ladybird might offer a ray of hope on that front:https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/> Downloads can now be paused and resumed, and survive a browser restart, when the server supports it (#10932). We also download over four parallel connections where possible. jkahrs595 1 day ago I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going. 2 replies → ciupicri 10 hours ago Download over four parallel connections to the same server?! solenoid0937 17 hours ago These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!? 2 replies →
jkahrs595 1 day ago I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going. 2 replies →
solenoid0937 17 hours ago These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!? 2 replies →
rrr_oh_man 1 day ago I always used Download Accelerator Plus (which, shockingly, received updates until last year!) andrewshadura 17 hours ago Back in the Windows days: FlashGet!
Razengan 20 hours ago Exactly what I thought when I saw this title, and whenever I try to download something from a browser:JetCar, FlashGet etc solved this shit 1000 years ago, wtf hasn't any browser figured it out?Or is this is some sort of lobbying by Big Data to make us lose our gigabytes? I honestly wouldn't be surprisedMaybe AI could recreate download managers of yore..
Let us also not forget Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) and DownThemAll
http://s3.speedbit.com/freeupgrade/upgfree93.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll!
And Internet Download Manager, they're also still selling it:
https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/
And still being updated, in fact, the rate of updating is surprisingly fast, which makes me suspicious of LLM in action.
First thing I thought of.
Browsers are universally dogshit at large downloads.
I'm shocked to learn it's still around, but it hasn't been updated since Windows 7? The page is a warp zone to 2010.
There is still a place for download managers, especially with Mozilla throwing 50% of their effort at rounding corners.
Ladybird might offer a ray of hope on that front:
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/
> Downloads can now be paused and resumed, and survive a browser restart, when the server supports it (#10932). We also download over four parallel connections where possible.
I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going.
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Download over four parallel connections to the same server?!
These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!?
2 replies →
It was essential and so great! How can it still exist.
That website reminds me of US Robotics Courier 56K :-)
Yes! And Go!Zilla!
I always used Download Accelerator Plus (which, shockingly, received updates until last year!)
Back in the Windows days: FlashGet!
Exactly what I thought when I saw this title, and whenever I try to download something from a browser:
JetCar, FlashGet etc solved this shit 1000 years ago, wtf hasn't any browser figured it out?
Or is this is some sort of lobbying by Big Data to make us lose our gigabytes? I honestly wouldn't be surprised
Maybe AI could recreate download managers of yore..
omg