A couple of days ago, I took a look at KGet, which is KDE’s resident download manager.

As you’d expect, KGet features heavy integration within Konqueror, the KDE web browser. However, many KDE users prefer to browse with Firefox for greater compatibility, meaning full integration between their browser and KGet isn’t possible by default.

Today, I’m going to show you how you can integrate the two programs using third-party Firefox extension FlashGot.

Installation

First of all, head over to the FlashGot website. On the left hand side of the page, click Download and then Install Now on the new page to download and install the Firefox extension.

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Download managers, although frowned upon by some, are often useful applications for those of us who download a lot of files, or are on slower connections and want to use a dedicated application (perhaps with some tricks up its sleeve) for the downloading of files.

KGet is KDE’s resident dedicated download program and is capable of acting both as a download manager for the Konqueror browser, as well as a standalone program.

On your system, KGet might already be installed. If not, you should be able to find a package named kget or get it as part of the kdenetwork metapackage.

When you first launch KGet, it asks you whether you want to enable that Konqueror integration I just mentioned.

Then, it all but disappears into a blue arrow in the system tray, usually at the bottom right of the screen.

There are now a few different ways you can start a download.

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Just a quick note to say that the second most popular web browser out there and one of the most used bits of open source on the desktop, Firefox has had version 3.0 go gold.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing Mozilla’s servers are down following an attempt to win Firefox a Guinness World Record for being the software most downloaded in 24 hours. The sheer weight of traffic attempting to snag the new release and help achieve the record has brought pretty much every Mozilla site to its knees.

Still, when things do come back up, be sure to grab yourself Firefox 3.0, get your Firefox-using friends (on all platforms) to upgrade and of course help convince others to switch!

Once it’s back up, you’ll be able to get Firefox here.

UPDATE: I’ve now managed to get on the site, so the links might well work again. Or they might go back down… YMMV.