I have a large file I need to download and will most likely need to pause it a couple times. I have used DAP but find it very annoying, can anyone recommend a light-weight download manager that can pause/resume and that is easy to deactivate (if it overrides the default browser download manager).
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Light weight download manager
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Abe
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wget is only 300k: http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
Terencek
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If you happen to use Opera as a browser, it has an excellent download manager built in: clean, no frills, bulletproof. Opera also has its own e-mail client, though it's fairly basic!
lord_spaceman
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Orbit is another free and not too shabby download manager. Google it
Reptile2025
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+1 FDM
Don't listen to the other people, except those who said Free Download Manager. 
Flashget has built in support for torrents, eMule and Rtsp streaming audio/video.
FDM (2.1mb) + BitComet(5.3mb) + eMule(3.8mb) = 11.2MB
FDM (2.1mb) + uTorrent(~600KB) + eMule(3.8mb) = 6.5MB
Flashget = 4.4mb
FDM (2.1mb) + BitComet(5.3mb) + eMule(3.8mb) = 11.2MB
FDM (2.1mb) + uTorrent(~600KB) + eMule(3.8mb) = 6.5MB
Flashget = 4.4mb
cerebus
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The one I've ended up sticking with is Orbit. It seems the most stable to me.
killadoob
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The_Techie
Resident Techie
I personally like DownThemAll 
gregmcc
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FDM gets my vote.
Still have to get FDM to work in FF3 like it is working in IE, cause when you click on a download link, it downloads with FF3, if I want to use FDM, I have to drag the link to FDM, which makes life a little bit more "bumpy"