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Topic Starter	Topic: Firefox download manager & DAP
K-mart Shopper The Illuminated Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 1212	Posted: 02-21-2005 12:35 PM                  After I uninstalled Download Accelerator, Firefox is still trying to use it for downloads, and of course messing up. Anyone know how to fix this?
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K-mart Shopper The Illuminated Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 1212	Posted: 02-21-2005 01:11 PM                  Nm.. it was a plugin with a stupid name.
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prince1000 Elite Joined: 07 Jan 2001 Posts: 16448	Posted: 02-21-2005 01:30 PM                  download accelerators dont really do anything...i thought
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Foo Timed Out Joined: 02 Aug 2000 Posts: 38064	Posted: 02-21-2005 01:45 PM                    Depends on the accelerator. Many of them can search for alternative sources (but this is now rare, with so many sites with 'leech protection' on them, you can't get the direct downloads. Also resuming downloads (even after a reboot) is another feature. However for always-on broadband, this again isn't such a big thing anymore. Still good for 56k users. The division between surfing and downloading large files is bigger now with P2P swallowing the large download area, so download accelerators aren't as handy as previously. _________________ "Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do." ― Terry A. Davis
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Tormentius The voices in your head Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 10054	Posted: 02-21-2005 01:46 PM                    The other downside is that many of them contain malware.
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shiv4 Mercenary Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 227	Posted: 02-21-2005 05:57 PM                  K-mart Shopper wrote: Nm.. it was a plugin with a stupid name. if you use the flashgot plugin you should perhaps uninstal that as well (under xtras > extensions) - and then reinstall, if needed
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K-mart Shopper The Illuminated Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 1212	Posted: 02-21-2005 06:40 PM                  I don't use any extensions.. I installed DAP because Microsoft download was going slow.. that's pretty much the only reason
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U4EA i liek boobies Joined: 26 Nov 2000 Posts: 11930	Posted: 02-21-2005 11:39 PM                  Yea, I stopped using download accelerators about the time I switched to broadband. Also, the points mentioned by Foo were starting to grate my nerves.
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meat apparatus Recruit Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 2	Posted: 02-27-2005 04:12 AM                  go into the firefox folder\plugins (most likely C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins) delete npdap.dll.
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