Version history for Free Download Manager

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Changes for v3.8 build 1173 - v3.9 RC1 build 1194

• Updated the Bittorrent downloader module (fixed: High memory usage when downloading torrents greater than 2 GB).
• Firefox 10, Firefox 11, Firefox 12 support.

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Changes for v3.0.852 - v3.8 build 1173

• New features:
• Ability to download flash videos from even more web sites (for IE 6 - IE 9, Firefox 3.5 - Firefox 9);
• Minor user interface improvements;
• Updated torrents core library;
• Import of uTorrent and Orbit Downloader downloads;
• Flash video monitoring for Google Chrome;
• Better traffic allocation between active downloads.

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Changes for v3.8 RC 2 build 1160 - v3.8 RC 3 build 1165

• Changes:
• Ability to specify network speed in bits per second (bps).
• Corrected bandwidth allocation algorithm.
• General bug fixes.

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Changes for v3.8 RC - v3.8 RC 2 build 1160

• Torrents may not seed.
• FDM could crash at shutdown.
• General bug fixes.

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Changes for v3.8 RC 1 build 1106 - v3.8 Beta 5 build 1142

• Options | Downloads | Network settings were changed. Now traffic limits are specified in percentages of connection speed.
• Better allocation of traffic between active downloads.
• List of downloads could be lost when Windows shutting down.
• General bug fixes.
• P.S. We apologize for this one yet beta stage and ask our user to be a bit more patient and wait until we will be able to release the final version. We plan to release it in December.

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Changes for v3.8 RC 1 build 1101 - v3.8 RC 1 build 1106

• Several bug fixes.

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Changes for v3.0.844 - v3.0.848

• Several bug fixes

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Changes for v2.5.758 - v3.0.844

• Win9x support was broken
• Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers support
• FDM plugins support
• Bittorrent tab
• Bittorrent: download only the selected files of a torrent
• Bittorrent: set the files priorities
• Bittorrent: create new torrent
• Option to not check if download with the same URL exists in the list
• Option to not save the list of recent downloads
• avast! Antivirus support
• Portable version: works under Vista and non admin accounts
• Portable version: portable Firefox support
• Option to set limit by time when FDM may start downloads
• Metalink: support multi file metalinks
• megashares.com, megaupload.com support
• New structure of FDM's settings
• Optimizations for Bittorrent downloads
• HTML Spider: optimization for more speed
• Support downloads from Yahoo mail
• Firefox may hang sometimes due to FDM
• FDM can't download files >2GB via HTTPS
• FDM may freeze for some time during Bittorrent downloads
• Bittorrent: number of uploaded bytes and share ratio was not shown correctly
• Explorer was crashing under Vista due to FDM
• FTP did not download via proxy
• Fixed a conflict with Skype
• General bug fixes

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Changes for v2.5.755 - v2.5.758

• Scheduler: did not remove autostart mode from stopped downloads.
• Bittorrent: some bug fixes

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Changes for v2.5.753 - v2.5.755

• Bittorrent: FDM might freeze when deleting download

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Changes for v2.5.736 - v2.5.737

• Two interface bugs.

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Changes for v2.5.729 - v2.5.731

• Downloads from Internet Explorer did not work sometimes
• Crash sometimes when downloading from Internet Explorer

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Changes for v2.5.727 - v2.5.728

• "Set default download folder" button
• Interface improvement for results window of create batch download window.
• Fix for youtube.com

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Changes for v2.5.724 - v2.5.727

• Groups was not imported from versions earlier than 2.3

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Changes for v2.5.723 - v2.5.724

• Improved start time for large downloads
• Interface bug fix for Bittorrent downloads.

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Changes for v2.5.721 - v2.5.723

• Improved "launch" and "open folder" commands for Bittorrent downloads.
• Crash while downloading Bittorrent downloads with large comment fields.
• Bug after setting by default the folder without back slash at the end.

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Changes for v2.3 Build 637 Beta 5 - v2.3 Beta 6

• This version includes Bittorrent support, upload manager, remote control and Flash video download.

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Changes for v2.3 Build 610 - v2.3 Build 623 Beta

• Flash video downloads (e.g. from youtube.com site)
• Audio/video files converter
• Ability to remember the last used folder for storing downloads
• Some fixes in Bittorrent protocol support module

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Changes for v2.1 - v2.3 Build 610

• Improved rapidshare server support
• Bug in Site Manager fixed

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