rollingrock wrote:I guess this confirms I have to uninstall FDM and use the alternative download manager (also free) where everything is working just fine....for all downloads in FF and Chrome.

1. For video downloads in Firefox or Chrome you can use FDM with SaveFrom.net helper or Video DownloadHelper. You can also use FDM without direct integration with Firefox or Chrome, just turn off monitoring in FDM and use 3rd party download helper like Flashgot for Firefox. I'm afraid there is no good general download helper for Chrome now - older extensions were abandoned (like Download Assistant) or not fully ported to new API yet (lIke FDM extension).
2. There is NO guarantee that ANY downloader will work for all video downloads. Even if some downloader works today, it may stop work tomorrow. Webmasters of many video hosting sites deliberately change code or their sites to prevent downloads, they even use broken code that may work properly only in some specific versions of one only web browser, see f.e.:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16047&p=41186&hilit=validator#p41186
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17280&p=41031&hilit=validator#p41031

Usher wrote:

rollingrock wrote:I guess this confirms I have to uninstall FDM and use the alternative download manager (also free) where everything is working just fine....for all downloads in FF and Chrome.

1. For video downloads in Firefox or Chrome you can use FDM with SaveFrom.net helper or Video DownloadHelper. You can also use FDM without direct integration with Firefox or Chrome, just turn off monitoring in FDM and use 3rd party download helper like Flashgot for Firefox. I'm afraid there is no good general download helper for Chrome now - older extensions were abandoned (like Download Assistant) or not fully ported to new API yet (lIke FDM extension).
2. There is NO guarantee that ANY downloader will work for all video downloads. Even if some downloader works today, it may stop work tomorrow. Webmasters of many video hosting sites deliberately change code or their sites to prevent downloads, they even use broken code that may work properly only in some specific versions of one only web browser, see f.e.:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16047&p=41186&hilit=validator#p41186
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17280&p=41031&hilit=validator#p41031

Dear Usher,

Thanks for taking time to explain the issues around downloading in the browsers.

I agree with the problems in Chrome and downloading, hardly anything works. I do not like to use those browser direct link downloads as once the browser is closed the download stops.

Downloading through the FF browser using the flashgot ext linked to FDM works, it grabs all the DL's and redirects to FDM, I prefer to monitor the downloads through FDM and I will continue to use it this way.

Thanks again for the above clarifications.

Kind regards

rollingrock wrote:I guess this confirms I have to uninstall FDM and use the alternative download manager (also free) where everything is working just fine....for all downloads in FF and Chrome.

You don't use a download manager for ripping videos. No, you just don't do it.
Simply use the UnPlug extension for FF.

Request: Return focus to browser after having added a download.
Environment: Windows 10; FF 40.0.3; FDM 3.9.6 (1614)
Steps to reproduce:
1) Start a download, for e.g., click: http://f0.freedownloadmanager.org/fdminst.exe. Wait for FDM dialog box to pop-up, press OK in it to start the download.
2) FDM starts the download and the FDM dialog disappears.
3) Press e.g. Ctrl+T to open a new tab in the browser. Notice that browser doesn't open another tab, instead an 'Add Task' dialog window pops up.
What is happening is that even though the FDM dialog disappeared, FDM still retained the active window focus (and hence the keyboard shortcuts went to FDM instead of going to FF) instead of returning it to the browser.
Please fix this, this is extremely annoying - there is absolutely no reason for FDM to retain focus.

Hippo wrote:Request: Return focus to browser after having added a download.

What is the state of your main FDM window before and after starting a download?

Usher wrote:

Hippo wrote:Request: Return focus to browser after having added a download.

What is the state of your main FDM window before and after starting a download?

Before starting download: FDM minimized to tray, hence main window not visible.
After: FDM still minimized to tray; again main window not visible.

Hippo wrote:Before starting download: FDM minimized to tray, hence main window not visible.
After: FDM still minimized to tray; again main window not visible.

So it's a real problem. Thanks for your report.

Edit: I have tested other apps called from their tray icon and now I think I was wrong. In all cases focus was passed to the parent window - that is - to the taskbar, which is a parent for notification area containing tray icons.

the problem is i just downloading the ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso but it was stopped in 50% but paused the video and started again today but it was not works do u have a any idea i got no error info
Thank u
valasu

Ok the problem fixed with updating the newer version of fdm thanks you

Please solve this problem I was having them since the last issue on 08.08.2015 and so far I have not found a solution
My OS Windows 8.1 x64 , Mozilla firefox 40.3 , FDM version 3.9.6 build 1614 .
this picture of the problem http://bigimage.cz/photos/20150920144270217677214.JPG , just help please !!

Ismail Abouhleka wrote:Please solve this problem I was having them since the last issue on 08.08.2015 and so far I have not found a solution

And so far you haven't provided any more detailed report as it is requested in the reporting rules.
Now I can only ask you to:
- create a new Windows user profile and login to it;
- run Firefox to create a new Firefox profile and close the browser;
- run FDM and configure monitoring options;
- run Firefox again and repeat all actions that ended with error message in the old user profile.
If the error occurs again, describe your actions step-by-step in your report, please.

Fx 41 and 42 beta, FDM 3.9.6 build 1614, XPSP3

When I download from YouTube, the file name is prefaced by the bracketed file type and resolution.

Is this a FDM thing or a YouTube thing? Is there a way to produce just the File name by itself?

Thanks

oroville wrote:When I download from YouTube, the file name is prefaced by the bracketed file type and resolution.

FDM works that way starting from 3.9.5 version. See screenshots, explanations, missing features, bug reports, etc. in "FDM 3.9.5" topic starting from here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17016&start=15#p39938 f.e.:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17016&start=30#p39963
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17016&start=60#p40056

oroville wrote:Is this a FDM thing or a YouTube thing? Is there a way to produce just the File name by itself?

There is no possibility to change filename for any video download so far, though this feature has been already suggested more than once.

ok, thanks

Fx 41.0.1, 42b3, 3.9.6 build 1614, xpsp3

Ive noticed that on numerous occasions I have had to reinstate the "Show downloads info while in progress" setting.

I launch a download, notice there is no evidence of it in progress, got to settings, and find the box is unchecked.

thx

oroville wrote:Ive noticed that on numerous occasions I have had to reinstate the "Show downloads info while in progress" setting.

Close all your browsers, finish all downloads and set this option once again. Restart FDM and make sure that it is still set. If it's not, that there is something wrong with your Windows user profile - maybe the registry file is broken, maybe some antimalware software is too obtrusive and blocks FDM access to the registry.