uGet integrates well with Firefox through FlashGot extension and the gap for Google Chrome was not filled until yesterday.

Integration with browsers: Google Chrome is my favorite browser and also I use Firefox. Either I have to limit their download speed or wait until the download completes in order to browse the Internet :-)įree and Open Source: Who wants to pay for a software while a FOSS provides the same or even better solution? I came to this conclusion because when they download a large file, the browser struggles to load any websites. I have used uGet, IDM, XDM, FlareGet, JDownloader and even more… but I have noticed that only the IDM and uGet(with aria2) utilizes the complete bandwidth to accelerate the download. Therefore, I strongly believe that both uGet and XDM provides the best of the available acceleration and which must be equal to IDM. When number of threads exceed the number of cores in the CPU, the performance will not increase further. However, simply increasing the number of threads (in other words, parallel connections to the server) doesn't mean that you can achieve infinite speed.

Download acceleration is achieved by multiple connections to the server using several threads in the application. This article introduces the best download manager I have ever seen for Linux the uGet Download Manager.ĭownload acceleration: I have tested uGet with aria2 and Xtreme Download Manager and both provides same download speed. I accept the truth that Internet Download Manager is hard to replace in terms of rich set of features but there are download managers available for Linux which are capable enough to satisfy the IDM fanboys. Those who switched to Linux from Windows mostly have this question: “What is the alternative for IDM in Linux?”.

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