Firefox download manager & DAP

Post by **K-mart Shopper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:35 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?

Post by **K-mart Shopper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:11 pm

Nm.. it was a plugin with a stupid name.

Post by **prince1000** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:30 pm

download accelerators dont really do anything...i thought

Post by **Foo** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:45 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.

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:46 pm

The other downside is that many of them contain malware.

Post by **shiv4** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:57 am

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

Post by **K-mart Shopper** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:40 am

I don't use any extensions.. I installed DAP because Microsoft download was going slow.. that's pretty much the only reason

Post by **U4EA** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:39 am

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.

Post by **meat apparatus** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:12 pm

go into the firefox folder\plugins (most likely C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins)

delete npdap.dll.