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Download with Free Download Manager (FDM)

by InBasic

v0.3.5 Updated Nov 29, 2025 180KiB
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Description

Send your downloading job requests to the well-known Free Download Manager (FDM) to take advantage of the following features: 1. BitTorrent support 2. Enhanced audio/video files support 3. Download acceleration 4. Resuming broken downloads 5. Smart file management and powerful scheduler 6. Adjusting traffic usage 7. Remote Control 8. HTML Spider This extension offers two levels of integration. The simple one is the right-click context menu items for video, audio, and image file types. The second level is an observer for downloading requests that are sent to the built-in download manager. The extension pauses each download when a new request is submitted. Then sends the actual downloadable URL to your Free Download Manager. This mode is more aggressive and can simply toggle on and off from the browser action. Notes: 1. For the extension to work you need to have Free Download Manager (FDM) installed; http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ 2. For the extension to be able to communicate with FDM, a small native client is required. This native client can be found at https://github.com/belaviyo/native-client/releases. You will get the instruction on how to install this native client when the extension tries to communicate for the first time. 3. This extension can extract links from selected text. Use the right-click context menu over selected text to access this tool. Web Components: This extension uses "notification-view" web component: https://webextension.org/custom-component/notification-view/index.html
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Reviews (8 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-09
Hussein Ali

not working, the downloading file still download from chrome not from fdm program

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-16
Shahin

When I try to install it on mac os I get this error in terminal: "NodeJS status = 1 Installer is using the embedded NodeJS"

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-10
Tomar_Prosennjit Purkait

not working. when I going to download something FDM is not starting but in build browser downloader

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-14
Jake Stone

Nice effort, has all the testing stuff the official extension doesn't ... but even with that it doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-24

You need to read and change my data on github? You need to read my browser history? and how is this extension not just a rippoff from the 'free download manager' plugin from 'freedownloadmanager.org' that comes with the free software 'free download manager'?

★★☆☆☆2018-04-23
Sebastian Lauffer

problems: if you update you r "free download manager" to version 3.9.7 build 1638 via update menue it doesent work. you need tu install it totally new. or there two "free download manager" with the exactly simular name? i used years 2016 and before free download manager from freeDownloadManager.ORG probalby there is somthing wrong with the update

★★★☆☆2020-08-29
Bright Tuffour

very fast

★★★☆☆2018-11-20
Ferick Andrew

Does not support FDM with customized installation path, otherwise I'd have to customize the javascript and the bat files

Permissions (7)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads nativeMessaging Can communicate with programs on your computer notifications Can show desktop notifications scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.3.5
Updated Nov 29, 2025
Size 180KiB
First Seen Mar 21, 2026