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		ChickeNES 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 GetRight was a fucking lifesaver when I was stuck on a 28.8k dial up connection that loved to drop at the worst possible time.
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lproven 6 days ago [–]

I haven't thought of that name in decades, but you're right, it really was. :-)

GetRight, then DownThemAll, and now, Multithreaded Download Manager:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multithreaded...

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