Free Download Manager is a free open source graphical download manager for the Microsoft Windows operating system. This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn’t be more straightforward. To download a file, just click a link in your browser or drag it onto the program’s tiny, semitransparent window.

Free Download Manager downloads files and convert videos (including flash) faster with open-source Free Download Manager. Its features include integration with all browsers, support of downloads from RapidShare, BitTorrent support, adjusting traffic usage, resuming broken downloads. Free Download Manager is released under GPL license and adds BitTorent support, flash video download, upload manager, portable mode, and remote control.

Pros:

• Fast download speed, easy to use.
• Powerful and comprehensive download manager.
• Very customizable.
• Previews of audio/videos and video conversion.
• Support for Bittorrent file sharing.
• Good browser integration (IE, Opera, Firefox, Chrome etc.)
• Free and open source.
• Features like scheduler, speed limit, mirror search, upload files, HTML spider etc available.
• Flash video downloader.

Cons:

• Incompatibility issues with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• User interface is little bit complex.

This download manager keeps getting better with time as you increase the number of connections one can utilize per single download. This aspect actually reduces download times while increasing download speeds even on very slow machines. It is indeed a “MUST HAVE” for tool for every computer. It is simply SUPERB.