A must have Firefox extension: DownThemAll!

A download manager is nothing new, they have been around for a long time. One of the reasons to use a download manager is that they can increase the speed at which you download large files.

But you may say: Isn't my download speed limited by my Internet provider?

The answer is not necessarily. Many download content providers throttle the bandwidth of your downloads and the download manager works around this limitation by a clever use of the HTTP protocol. A download manager will open multiple threads to the host and request the file in chunks which can greatly increase the speed at which you download.

One such download manager comes as an extension to our favorite internet browser: Firefox. The program is called DownThemAll! and it sports many other features like downloading all the links on a page, or resuming paused downloads.