Ultra fast download option (aria2)

[domportera]

Dead thread, please refer to the Download Manager feature request

It would be great to be able to use aria2 as the download handler for the browser. It is a much faster way of downloading things from the web and totally open source. Very easy to implement as well. Maybe this should not be the default functionality, but having this as an option would be wonderful.

Being able to advertise that your browser can download files many times faster than all competing browsers would probably be pretty nice too

[domportera]

for anyone wanting to take advantage of this regardless, there's a great extension called Aria2 for Chrome

You'll need to set up an aria2 RPC server yourself, but if you just make a .bat file with the following contents in the same directory as your aria2 executable, you should be good to go:

@echo off

aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-listen-all --max-concurrent-downloads=40 --max-connection-per-server=16 --min-split-size=20M --split=16 --continue=true --dir=C:\Users\\[YOUR USERNAME]\Downloads

Once that is running (you may want to set it to start with your OS), you can play with the extension's options to make sure it's actually enabled properly within your browser.

[Pesala]

@domportera There is already a top feature request for a Download Manager. I assume that would do the same thing by managing multiple connections and multiple simultaneous downloads.

[domportera]

@Pesala i didnt see that! thanks for pointing that out to me, updating this and throwing my hat into that ring