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.
