Is there some sort of download manager in Linux Mint

[brawnypandora0]

When I download large files from the web, I have to leave the Firefox window open all the time until it's finished downloading. Sometimes when my download hasn't finished yet, I close the window by accident and then I have to start the download all over again. This has happened a few times now and is really frustrating. Does Mint have some sort of download manager that handles web downloads and lets me close Firefox? If not, how do I get this?

[Dragard]

Huh, whenever I use FireFox and I'm downloading something, I can close the window and the Download window will still be open showing the progress. Even when I close the download window, it's still downloading cause when I open up FireFox I can see that it's been downloading. Chromium wont let me do that though.

[brawnypandora0]

Huh, whenever I use FireFox and I'm downloading something, I can close the window and the Download window will still be open showing the progress. Even when I close the download window, it's still downloading cause when I open up FireFox I can see that it's been downloading. Chromium wont let me do that though.

That doesn't happen to me!!!

[colyn]

Huh, whenever I use FireFox and I'm downloading something, I can close the window and the Download window will still be open showing the progress. Even when I close the download window, it's still downloading cause when I open up FireFox I can see that it's been downloading. Chromium wont let me do that though.

That doesn't happen to me!!!

Try it again. It works for me. Download should not stop unless you stop it yourself.

When you close the window download will stop but will resume a few seconds after starting Firefox again..

[euthypro]

You can try the Firefox add-on "DownThemAll!." It will pause and resume, optimize download speed, and handle multiple downloads. I find it excellent.

Edit: Before installing this add-on, I would switch to Opera for any major downloads. Opera download manager is better.

Angel

[vincent]

If you want to download something large but don't want to have a browser window open, you can just use wget in a terminal. E.g. if you were to download the latest kernel sources, this is what you would do:

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wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2

And if you stopped the download, and want to continue again from where you left off...

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wget -c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2

[Midnighter]

I use Gwget, a nice front-end to wget, very easy to use and configure, very friendly. Just paste the download links into it, and tell it when to download.