uninstalled comodo firewall and FDM works back again like a charm, now to figure out why comodo is blocking FMD despite it saying allow application full access to net

thanks

Edit: I reset comodo settings to default and now it works

thanks for getting back to me, yeah issue seemed to happen around same time as comodo was installed will try uninstalling it fully and see if it is somehow blocking it...seems strange other downloaders and normal firefox download manager accepts it. I uninstalled fdm from firefox addons and closed i...

thx for the advice will give it a shot ! Regarding history, I have set FDM to not save history or logs... 60gig+ free on the hdd also My ISP does not throttle or limit me yet + it would not discount that I can close a groggy FDM and load firefox inbuilt downloader which goes at full speed bandwidth ...