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Comment by jeroenhd | Hacker News Reader

Woah, this gives me flashbacks. I remember using this to download files from shady websites on the school computers in the Firefox 3.5 era.

These days, connections have become so fast that I don't really use a download manager anymore. The last place I download large files from through the browser is Mega, and its encryption is inherently incompatible with this addon.

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I downloaded a good chunk of Gameboy and N64 ROM's from https://www.theoldcomputer.com/ around 2010. It was a very effective add-on.

Download Managers is still being used to this day. I have to use a download manager to download a 250MB file that capped the speed at 50KBps... And this is coming from a well-known but shitty printer company. So it took ages to down that and often it would failed. JDownloader2 took care of that since it can do multiple connection to do a quicker download.

If you need a download manager for MEGA, check into JDownloader2. They are compatible with MEGA en/decryption. And developers is very active.

It might be more of an annoyance for the basic "I got a link to a file and I just want to download it" use case, but I use rclone's mega backend: https://rclone.org/mega/

I still use it in cases when a page links to a bunch of individual media files I want to download quickly and without making a complete mess of my downloads folder. Rare nowadays, but find it a lot on academic type websites.

Perfect example: https://www.ubu.com/sound/antin.html

I took GetBot for a spin recently from my downloaded apps archive, but unfortunately it doesn't handle files above 2GB very well -- the remaining bytes/time counter goes nuts. Too bad, I liked its clipboard support where you could also paste a list of URLs it needs to go through.

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