FlashGot - a beginners guide to easy downloading with Firefox

FlashGot is the best Firefox download manager integration around. That is their words and they may very well be true. FlashGot ( http://flashgot.net/ ) is a tool to integrate the website with a download manager of your choice.

In regard to download managers then we are in business with tools like DownThemAll ( http://www.downthemall.net/ ), which is free and the commercial tool ReGet ( http://www.reget.com/en/ ). I will demonstrate both here in this micro tutorial. We will also have a quick look into some of the configuration possibilities of FlashGot.

Quote: "Spend less time downloading and more time on organizing". 

The image screenshot below shows the Preferences for FlashGot. From the red marked circles you can see that I have a possibility to choose the default download manager as either DTA (Down Them All), ReGet or the build in browser download capability. I am most familiar with ReGet as it gives me the most information and control, but the choice matters little as both tools manage to download properly.

FlashGot supports a wide range of download managers whereas the most popular probably is DownThemAll, FlashGet, GetRight, jDownloader and ReGet.

FlashGot basically has two modes, either you choose to download 1 link or you choose to download the entire page, and everything that is linked to from the page, one level deep. Let's see how things looks using DownThemAll and choosing 'FlashGot All'.

If we switch the default download manager to ReGet then we get a slightly different picture although they are quite similar. With DTA some files are checked as which to download. With ReGet all files are picked as to be downloaded. Both tools require you to hand pick which, because in this case you may want only the default size video and the HD largest quality video.

With both DTA and ReGet the next step is to click OK and let the downloading begin. If you right click a link and choose 'FlashGot Link' which is the single file download mode then you get thrown directly into the single file download mode of the download manager you have set the preference too. Again it is the OK button and your download starts.

The force of download managers like DTA and ReGet are their ability to stop and resume huge downloads with multiple threads. Downloading a 2.18Gb file may take a little while and the best way is to use a tool like DTA or ReGet. Give it a try.