Looking for downloader that goes in system tray

General · 08-29-2005, 04:12 PM

Does anyone know of a downloader, compatible with Firefox, that sits in the system tray or notification area of the GNOME desktop?

reddazz · 08-29-2005, 06:57 PM

When I use GNOME, I use gwget which docks in the panel when minimised. What do you mean by compatible with Firefox?

General · 08-29-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally posted by reddazz
When I use GNOME, I use gwget which docks in the panel when minimised.

Yeah, that is what I am looking for. Does it list the downloads in a menu when you click on the system tray icon or does it just open full window again? Also, I think this is a frontend to wget. A friend told me that using wget will get you banned on some sites. I don't know if that is true.

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What do you mean by compatible with Firefox?

So that if I click to download something, it will open instead of the downloader that comes with Firefox.

craigevil · 08-29-2005, 09:08 PM

You might try d4x.

You will probably need the Flashgot extension for any download manager to work properly with Firefox. http://www.flashgot.net/whats

I use Kget.

reddazz · 08-30-2005, 04:04 AM

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Originally posted by General
Yeah, that is what I am looking for. Does it list the downloads in a menu when you click on the system tray icon or does it just open full window again? Also, I think this is a frontend to wget. A friend told me that using wget will get you banned on some sites. I don't know if that is true.So that if I click to download something, it will open instead of the downloader that comes with Firefox.

I think it lists the downloads when you roll a mouse over the docked applet (not sure coz I've not used it for a while). As for integration with Firefox, I have never checked that out because all I do is copy and paste urls and that works fine for me.