I'm loving both IDM and Google Chrome, but they just don't seem to go well together. There are frequent crashes and the lack of a context menu in Chrome is putting people off a bit. IDM integrates far better with Firefox.
But you can get pretty close anyway.
Crash-B-Gone
UPDATE: IDM 6.xx is no longer in beta. You can grab the final version now.First off, grab a copy IDM 6.xx beta. This resolves most (if not all) the crashes regarding IDM integration with Chrome. I've been using it and never had any crashes since.
If you choose to use the stable version instead, then disable advanced browser integration inside IDM options. However this will force you to manually insert the URL into IDM.
Right-click to download
UPDATE: Alternatively, you can use Download Helper by Google. It's simpler than DM-Bridge, but only supports the most popular downloaders. For now you can't even use a custom downloader, unlike DM-Bridge.
And that's pretty much it.
right clicking on a link and selecting download with IDM doesnt add the download to the idm
ReplyDeleteonly directly opening a link by copy pasting in url bar opens the download via IDM
It does work in my case, seamlessly in fact. Now I use Download Helper instead of DM-Bridge (since I don't really use other download managers) so you might want to try that out.
ReplyDeleteOpening the link directly from the URL bar to download via IDM is pretty much the default behavior for IDM if you enable integration :/