Download Faster in Firefox - DownThemAll.net

This is one of the best add-ons i've ever seen for the Open Source browser Firefox. Downthemall (or dTa) is a very good download manager that works inside Firefox. It allows the user to download the current web page and all the links going from it with a single click.


It has most of the functions you would expect from a website grabber (But no support for grabbing a site in all its entirety), including a nice filtering feature which allows the user to download only specific types of media embedded in a page. But the best feature of all is the speed of the downloads. Under the SLT 512Kbps download speed limit, dTa achieves an average speed of about 50Kbps, but this is not always the case. Although I have no idea about the internal workings of this extension, it seems to achieve these speeds by breaking up the download into small pieces. But this is possible only in servers which support this kind of HTTP requests. For example, Rapidshare doesn't allow multipart downloading, therefore dTa slows down when downloading from these servers. Another thing to note is that although dTa supports FTP, downloading through this protocol is very slow, and I recommend using this extension only for HTTP downloading. You can install this extension from their website, www.downthemall.net