Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners (which steal your bandwidth), no spyware inside it.
This tool uses four connections per file to get the highest possible download speed. Fresh Download lets you create multiple connections, pause and resume, integrates integrates seamlessly into Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera, and allows you to schedule your downloads. Finally, Fresh Download includes proxy-server support in both HTTP and FTP protocols. Has new option to add FD button on IE bar.

Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners (which steal your bandwidth), no spyware inside it.
This tool uses four connections per file to get the highest possible download speed. Fresh Download lets you create multiple connections, pause and resume, integrates integrates seamlessly into Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera, and allows you to schedule your downloads. Finally, Fresh Download includes proxy-server support in both HTTP and FTP protocols. Has new option to add FD button on IE bar.
Key features of Fresh Download:
• Turbo charges downloading files in FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols using your current internet connection (dial-up, cable, DSL / ADSL, satellite, T1, etc).
• Pause and resume broken downloads, recovers from a dropped Internet connection.
• Multiple connections download manager. To get the highest possible speed, this powerful tool uses 4 simultaneous connections (up to 8 connections) for the same file, while many other similar software only support single connection download. Based on user reports, this method may speed up your downloads by up to 400%.
• Easy integration into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firebird and Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Opera, Avant Browser, Crazy Browser, Maxthon / MyIE2, Slim Browser, in any Windows operating system (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP). Simply grabs any URL from these popular browsers and Fresh Download will take over.
• Schedule your downloads for low traffic periods.
• Clipboard monitoring and drag & drop features. Easily grabs any URL from any applications.
• Antivirus support. Scan downloaded files from any viruses using your current antivirus software.
• Ability to download from password protected sites, in both HTTP and FTP protocols.
• Proxy Server support in both HTTP and FTP protocols.
• Plus now it has a built-in Zip file extractor.

June 17, 2009
What's new: default button on download properties.