February 8th, 2012· Added support for Firefox 11 and Firefox 12
· Improved Advanced Browser Integration
January 30th, 2012· Added support for new types of video streaming sites
January 17th, 2012· Redesigned video stream recognition for web players. Added support for new types of video streaming sites
· Added support for Filesonic changes
· Fixed bugs
December 30th, 2011· Added support for Filesonic changes
· Added Firefox 10 support
· Added socks support
December 28th, 2011· Added Firefox 10 support
· Fixed bugs
December 20th, 2011· Added socks support
· Fixed bugs
November 26th, 2011· Redesigned video stream recognition for web players.
· Added support for new types video sites
· Fixed bugs
November 15th, 2011· Added support for Firefox 9
· Fixed bugs
October 25th, 2011· Added support for new domain names of filesonic site
· Added digest authorization for web sites
· Fixed bugs
October 3rd, 2011· Added support for Firefox 8
· Improved video discovery on youtube
· Fixed bugs
October 3rd, 2011· Added video stream recognition for several new web players
· Fxied a critical bug in 64bit versions of Windows
September 8th, 2011· Resolved the problem with expiration of download links on youtube. Fixed automatic updating of download addresses
· Added digest authentication for proxy authorization
· Added rtmp resume for many sites where IDM could not resume in the past
· Improved downloading for the sites which generate temporary download links
August 30th, 2011· Added support for Firefox 7
· Fixed bugs
August 9th, 2011· Fixed bugs
August 2nd, 2011· Enhanced "Speed Limiter". Added the feature to set an individual limit for every download
· Redesigned "Download progress" dialog, added new tabs and the possibility to disable tabs that are not necessary for you
· Fixed bugs
August 2nd, 2011· Added support for Firefox 6
· Fixed bugs
July 15th, 2011· Enhanced "start download" dialog
· Fixed bugs
July 10th, 2011· Fixed bugs
July 8th, 2011· Added additional options on "Download progress" dialog
· Made a workaround for odd characters in file names when downloading from youtube
· Fixed bugs
May 31st, 2011· Added support for Firefox 5
· Resolved problems with foreign versions of Windows when a username contains hieroglyphs or other Unicode characters
· Improved advanced browser integration
· Fixed bugs
April 26th, 2011· Enhanced new download progress bar
· Fixed several bugs
April 23rd, 2011· Advanced browser integration has been significantly amended.
· Improved automatic interception of downloads, enhanced video stream detection in Chrome, Opera and in other browsers which are integrated with network driver
April 22nd, 2011· Enhanced Download progress dialog. The download progress bar was redesigned in 3d style. Added support for Windows Aero theme for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
· Fixed several bugs
April 6th, 2011· Improved IE integration
· Fixed a critical bug in IE integration module
March 29th, 2011· Made a workaround to resolve compatibility problems of IDM network drivers with antiviral software drivers which caused some sites to load slowly in browsers
March 18th, 2011· Fixed "Download all links with IDM" menu crashing IE 9
· Fixed critical bug in IE integration module
· Improved audio and video recognition for several sites
March 16th, 2011· Fixed compatibility problems with Internet Explorer 9 Final
March 11th, 2011· Resolved IE integration problems
· Fixed bugs with file name renaming
March 4th, 2011· Fixed a bug with incorrect replacement of file extensions
· Added support for new download interface on Filesonic sites
· Improved video recognition in IE9
February 14th, 2011· Improved recognition of audio and video streams in web players
· Improved download resuming when a download link has expired
· Improved processing of https protocol
· Fixed bugs
February 2nd, 2011· Fixed a critical bug that may crash Windows Explorer or a browser when a user moves the slider on the timeline in a web player on YouTube
· Improved IDM download engine
January 26th, 2011· Resolved several problems when advanced browser integration was unable to turn on
· Fixed downloading with several web sites
· Added a display of download progress on IDM icon on the taskbar of Windows 7
December 23rd, 2010· Added support for several browsers
· Improved compatibility with Proxomitron web filter
December 22nd, 2010· Added full support for 64-bit browsers
· Improved web players detection for some sites
November 26th, 2010· Improved advanced integration compatibility with LavaSoft Firewall and Kaspersky antivirus products
November 13th, 2010· Fixed several bugs
November 10th, 2010· Improved advanced integration compatibility with ZoneAlarm and several other Security applications
November 1st, 2010· Fixed BSOD related bugs
· Improved advanced integration compatibility with AVG and Avast Internet Security
October 1st, 2010· Added a workaround for rapidshare.com site changes
· Improved processing of downloads from several file sharing sites
· Fixed Firefox 4 compatibility problems
September 9th, 2010· Added capture of new video formats in online media players
· Fixed system crashes caused by advanced integration driver
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed advanced browser integration compatibility issue with Kaspersky antivirus (Windows 7)
· Fixed compatibility problems with Avira Security Suite and Avast Internet Security
· Fixed problem with browser not loading individual pages on some web sites served by MS IIS
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed advanced browser integration compatibility issue with NOD32 Antivirus
· Fixed problem with browsers not opening hotmail.com and other pages (Windows XP)
· Fixed problem downloading from download.com and other sites
· Better detection of media players embedded into web pages
· Fixed minor bugs
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed random system crashes (Windows XP)
· Fixed minor bugs
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed system freeze after installing third-party TDI drivers (Windows XP)
· Fixed IE8 stalls on certain web sites
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed system freeze with Ad Muncher installed (Windows 7)
· Fixed minor bugs
September 3rd, 2010· Fixed compatibility problems with all major browsers including Google Chrome.
· Added IDM video download panel for all major browsers
· Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players on YouTube, Google Video, MySpace TV, and other popular sites
July 27th, 2010· Fixed compatibility problems with different browsers including Google Chrome.
· Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players on YouTube, Google Video, MySpace TV, and other popular sites
May 26th, 2010· Improved Windows 7 compatibility
· Fixed bugs
April 30th, 2010· Fixed bugs
April 28th, 2010· Fixed a security vulnerability
· Added "Download panel" for selected links on a web-page
January 21st, 2010· Fixed several bugs
November 11th, 2009· Fixed critical bugs.
November 11th, 2009· Added automatic interception of downloads for various file hosting web sites
· Fixed Windows 98 compatibility problems started from 5.18 build 1, introduced by processing of site names in foreign languages
November 11th, 2009· Fixed a critical security vulnerability
· Added the ability to get back using old IDM triangle icon in system tray. The icon can be returned by using "View->IDM tray icon->Classic style" menu item
November 11th, 2009· Fixed bugs
August 11th, 2009· Added support for Chinese, Japanese and other East Asian languages. Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players
May 27th, 2009· We have added these features in response to IDM user requests.
· Fixed a bug with NTLM authorization and several others
May 19th, 2009· We have added these features in response to IDM user requests.
· Added "Add batch download from clipboard" menu item to "Tasks" menu
· Significantly revised parsing of http protocol headers. Besides increasing download speed, it also solved problems with flaw programmed firewalls and antiviral software. In particular "CA Internet Security Suite" has a serious bug in its network filters, because of which IDM versions from 5.16 till 5.17.3 could not parse headers and download some files correctly.
May 8th, 2009· We have added these features in response to IDM user requests.
· Improved media file recognition in web players in Firefox and other Mozilla based browsers
· Fixed several bugs
November 24th, 2008· Added workarounds for the sites where IDM had download problems
· Resolved several issues related to taking over downloads on Windows Vista
· Fixed bugs with "Download with IDM" menu on Firefox 3.x
· Version 5.15 build 2 includes all latest bug fixes
December 20th, 2006· this version fixes conflicts of "Advanced browser integration" with Windows Vista, Windows 2003 and with several Internet applications
October 24th, 2006· Redeveloped IDM "Advanced browser integration" from scratch and fixed conflicts of "Advanced browser integration" with Windows Vista, Windows 2003 and with several Internet applications
September 5th, 2006· the site grabber,
· XP visual styles,
· new 3D look,
· enhanced download engine
August 29th, 2006· Fixed bugs when taking over some complex download links from web browsers
July 22nd, 2006· New version adds support for MMS protocol and the site grabber feature.
· It lets you download required files that are specified with filters, for example all pictures from a web site, or subsets of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing.
· It's possible to schedule multiple grabber projects to run them once at a specified time, stop them at a specified time, or run periodically to synchronize changes.
· The new version also adds redesigned and enhanced download engine, the unique integration into all latest browsers and other Internet programs, improved toolbar, enhanced virus protection on download completion, improved link capturing logic, support for XP visual styles, and a wealth of other improvements and bug fixes.