Alex wrote:

Jahn wrote:Flash video monitor has stopped working in Firefox 3.6.18 with error Flash video module is not installed.

Please re-download FDM installer again and install. Tell me about the result.

Yes, the Flash module works correctly again in new FDM 3.8 version (MD5 43c9621fe97be35163bd749a9d5cff1e) Thank you, Alex. Still testing.

FlyingHorse wrote:When the Add download dialog box appears I cannot change the Group drop down list.

Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next update.

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, so here I go:

Monitoring on IE9 is buggy. The option "[ALT] must be pressed" has no effect.
FDM is always triggered. Firefox 5 is uneffected.

This seems to have been introduced only recently, I've been using the betas since
Firefox 4 was released and never had issues.

Other than that, great project! Thank you!

FDM 3.8 BETA 3 b1058
IE9 9.0.8112.16421
Win7 Sp1 32b

fdmbuddy wrote:The option "[ALT] must be pressed" has no effect.
FDM is always triggered.

Thank you for the report. Bug will be fixed in the next update.

Hey Alex, I'm wondering, can you somehow improve the startup time for FDM? I've timed it on my Windows 7 x64 system to take about 6 seconds to start the first time (once Windows has completely loaded and I manually start it) and if I close it and restart it later, about 4 seconds. Every second counts in the long run.

rickmastfan67 wrote:Hey Alex, I'm wondering, can you somehow improve the startup time for FDM?

FDM startup time depends on:
- your FDM settings - the more logs you keep the longer start is (see menu Options | Settings | History);
- your download list - the more downloads (especially torrents) you have the longer start is.

What is more, FDM clears expired entries in logs on startup. That way it takes more time to start FDM after long period of unusing than to restart it. And don't forget that during restart some FDM files may be already cached in RAM so it also makes restart faster.

subject: FDM crash after downloading Flash Video

hi, sometimes FDM 3.8 b1058 is crashing afterdownloading flash videos...

e.g.

http://www.blendernation.com/2011/07/15 ... rNation%29

( http://hansenet-ber1.hansenet-ham1.o-o. ... st=lc&ir=1 )

only download - not enabled the convert option.

i started the video,
switched to 720p,
and clicked the "Download It"-Button.

FDM started downloading normally and finished downloading (at 99%) - but the bubble info/notification that normaly appers in the right lower corner of the screen, to notify that the download is finished, pop up as a black region with nothing on and FDM stopped working.
windows is bringing a message, thet FDM stopped working.

every time when downloading the video with that link FDM crashes.


subject2: FDM downloads the Flash video mot everytime from the beginning.

the second issue is, that sometimes the downloaded video is missing the beginning of it. it seems, the the video is downloading only from the time when the "Download It"-button was pressed - the time between start playing and pressing the "download it" button is not in the downloaded video.


subject3: FDM is only downloading flash videos with the quality that is currently selected in the flash player.

if i watch a flash video with 480px the downloaded quality is also 480px even if there is a higher quality available (720p) - is it possible to automaticialy download every time the flash video in its highest available quaity?


win 7 x64 ultimate
IE9 and Firefox 5 (on both this issues is present)
FDM 3.8 build 1058 beta3

i have same issue - FDM crash on flash downloads

http://www.youtube.com/user/MondoMedia#p/u/22/GQ151T5u-ww

clean installation of fdm 3.8 build 1058 (2011-07-16; 6.731.985 bytes)
on windows 7 x64 sp1, ie9.

Usher wrote:

rickmastfan67 wrote:Hey Alex, I'm wondering, can you somehow improve the startup time for FDM?

FDM startup time depends on:
- your FDM settings - the more logs you keep the longer start is (see menu Options | Settings | History);
- your download list - the more downloads (especially torrents) you have the longer start is.

What is more, FDM clears expired entries in logs on startup. That way it takes more time to start FDM after long period of unusing than to restart it. And don't forget that during restart some FDM files may be already cached in RAM so it also makes restart faster.

Alright. Just thought it would be possible for FDM to take advantage of my 6 CPU cores to start up faster, that's all.

rickmastfan67 wrote:Just thought it would be possible for FDM to take advantage of my 6 CPU cores to start up faster, that's all.

So you should ask about multithreading, not just about startup. But you can't speed up disk I/O operations that way if all accessed files are on the same HDD.

Usher wrote:

rickmastfan67 wrote:Just thought it would be possible for FDM to take advantage of my 6 CPU cores to start up faster, that's all.

So you should ask about multithreading, not just about startup. But you can't speed up disk I/O operations that way if all accessed files are on the same HDD.

It can be optimized by using a incremental launch:
1. Load FDM's core, show tray icon;
2. Run all scheduler tasks except download tasks;
3. Load active downloads list except torrents; Start them;
4. Load all other downloads and torrents;
5. Run all scheduler download tasks.

Pardon my English >__>

Tiger.711 wrote:It can be optimized by using a incremental launch:
1. Load FDM's core, show tray icon;
(...)

FDM already does something like that. During startup you can see blue arrow icon first - if you click it you can see empty main window while FDM loads download list. Then you can see download list and yellow arrow while FDM starts downloads, and then you can see red, green or yellow icon depending on updated download status.
Downloads in automatic mode are started from top to bottom of the download list, no matter they are regular downloads or torrents.
Of course you can stop all downloads before exiting FDM and resume them one-by-one or in automatic mode after FDM start - that way FDM really starts faster.

I found a bug in the free download manager
FDM extension make firefox 5.0.1 crash

Usher wrote:During startup you can see(...)

No, I can't. It works perfect for me: Fast launch with no lags. I have fast system.
Thank you for your excellent and fast free download manager (8

subject: Access denied in an secure sharepoint environment

hello, i tried to download files in a secure sharepoint environment.
for the sharepoint website it self i have to authentificate me with user and password.
but if i want to download a file from that location, FDM didn't know that authentification... is also not prompt or ask for the authentification...



FDM 3.8 build 1058 beta3
Windows 7 x64 + IE9 (with newest SP and fixes)