How about giving your downloads a little boost? Multithreaded Download Manager (MDM) is an extension for the Firefox browser that, thanks to the Multithreading or what is also known as “multiple threads”.
Most download managers usually require a lot of permissions, and in the case of the MDM extension, things don’t change much. We stand before an open source tool So we can fully consult your code from your github pageThis gives us the assurance that things will be done well.
How can we speed up downloads using? Multithreading?
However, the great thing about this extension for Firefox is that it enables it Split each download into different threads This works in parallel, with each of these threads downloading part of the file. This way the download will be done at a faster speed. Sounds interesting right?
Of course, this only works if the server and our network accept this type of multithreaded download, which is not always the case on the internet. In either case, the MDM extension is configured by default to split each download into 4 threads. However, this is a variable that we can change in the tool’s configuration settings.
For example, Firefox only allows a maximum of 6 threads, although this value can be changed by changing the variable from network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server Y. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy corresponding.
Once we’ve installed the extension, we’ll see a new icon appear next to the navigation bar. If we click on it, we will see a list of the downloads in progress, as well as the typical information with the speed, the percentage of work completed, the resumption of the pause and other interesting dates.
Another interesting detail is that the MDM extension can automatically detect each download. However, we can also add one or more URLs manually or detect a new download Copy the URL to the clipboard.
If we add a url it will be displayed all available downloads and media files on this website. The truth is it couldn’t be easier or more practical. In addition, we can use the application to generate checksums to ensure that the download is successful, as well as set the minimum size of each block or the number of retries in the event of an error or cut.
We are faced with a very complete download manager with a number of options to automate our downloads, customize the user interface, get rid of failed downloads, etc. In short, a highly recommended extension for Mozilla web browser users.