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Firefox download manager & DAP
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:35 pm
by K-mart Shopper
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?
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:11 pm
by K-mart Shopper
Nm.. it was a plugin with a stupid name.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:30 pm
by prince1000
download accelerators dont really do anything...i thought
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:45 pm
by Foo
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:46 pm
by Tormentius
The other downside is that many of them contain malware.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:57 am
by shiv4
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
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:40 am
by K-mart Shopper
I don't use any extensions.. I installed DAP because Microsoft download was going slow.. that's pretty much the only reason
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:39 am
by U4EA
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:12 pm
by meat apparatus
go into the firefox folder\plugins (most likely C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins)
delete npdap.dll.