FDM 5 Preview 453h6e

[D. Yessa]

Dear s,

These past months, we have been working on a new release and it’s finally here: meet FDM 5 Preview. It improves on the previous builds and fixes a couple of bugs.

There are still some known issues:

[*]Import of History from FDM 3 is turned off
[*]RAM consumption can be high under certain circumstances
[*]IE integration will not work in IE11 with Enhanced protected mode turned on
[*]With long lists of s (400+), UI might start working slowly

We continue to improve the functionality of our Free Manager and enrich the program with new features.

Please Keep in Mind When Reporting Bugs/Suggesting New Features
Here's our view of what FDM 5 should become: we want to take the most important and used features from FDM 3 and bind them to the new and modern UI. We want the new FDM to be fast and responsive, at the same time we don't want it to be resource-demanding in any way. And this is the main goal we are working on at the moment. Once we've done that, we will start adding new features and settings: new ones, which you are suggesting from time to time, and the good-old FDM 3 ones, which have not been implemented in FDM 5 due to various reasons.
This is why we need your .

To Report a Bug/Ask to Add a Feature from FDM 3
[*] Please post on this thread. Do not create additional threads. This is the place where both bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome.
To Suggest a New Feature
[*] Please click on the "Suggest an idea" banner at the top right corner of any forum page.



When installing a new build, you will be asked to uninstall the previous installation of FDM 3. Please note that FDM3 uninstaller will ask you whether you want to remove your list/settings/etc. Answer NO to keep the ability to move back to FDM3 without losing anything!

Never forget to BACK UP your old FDM *.sav service files BEFORE installing and testing any new FDM alpha/preview build. There may be some changes in *.sav files structure and the files may be too large to be properly converted or broken during coversion to the new format.

Build 5140 (2015-09-20)
[*] Firefox add-on updated to be compatible with new Firefox 41+
Known issues:
[*] ‘ video with FDM’ menu item is shown on any page, although it works only with YouTube videos.

Build 4520.3(2015-05-26)
[*]Improved stability for Firefox add-on updates

Build 4520.2(2015-05-15)
[*]Added compatibility with Firefox 38 and 39

Temporarily reverted to build 4520( above) (2015-04-29)
Google banned us again; investigating.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Build 4726.1(2015-04-27)
[*]Improved performance
[*]Improved RAM consumption
[*]Improved stability
[*] for Enhanced protected mode in IE11+/Win8
[*]Upon requests, Del removes the record of a from the list whereas Shift+Del removes the file from disk as well. The same way the Recycle Bin button on the now removes the record as opposed to the file itself.
[*]Restarting Chrome is no longer required to apply Chrome monitoring settings
[*]Copy URL works correctly for unfinished Youtube s
[*]Improved Unicode for torrent data
[*]Resolved the issue with scrolling on Surface tablets
Known issues
[-]Pressing Del in some dialog windows (i.e., Preferences) may be handled as an attempt to delete the active (selected)
[-]Actions for context menu items "remove from list" and "delete file(s)" are mixed up
[-]There still are usability issues with scrolling on Surface tablets that will be resolved in the future

Build 4520 (2015-04-01)
[*] Minor changes (investigating)

Build 4467 (2015-03-26)
[*] Minor bug fixes

Build 4436 (2015-03-24)
[*]You can choose not to make any file associations during installation
[*]improved image previews for files with non-ASCII symbols in the name
[*]improved Youtube s: bug fixes and additional capabilities
[*]improved browser integration, added for Firefox 37
[*]more intuitive multiple selection from the list
[*]improved bandwidth throttling when bandwidth limits are set
[*]several minor changes in the UI and functionality

Build 3768 (2015-01-12)
[+] Added for Firefox 35
Sidenote: If the add-on is still shown as "incompatible with Firefox 35" after installation, you may need to manually disable and then enable again integration with Firefox via FDM Settings.

Build 3763 (2014-12-26)
Improvements
[*] for tagging s has been added
[*]Browser integration has been improved
[*]ing from Youtube has been improved
[*]Brand new UI for the Settings dialog. Search for settings has been added.
[*]Memory consumption and stability improvements.
[*]Implemented a simplified UI for configuring traffic restrictions
[*]Suspended of Opera 12 & Safari 5 browsers
[*]Improved keyboard shortuts processing
[*]Improvements on the functionality of the bottom
Known issues
[*]Selection checkboxes in the s list can work incorrectly in some cases
[*]In some cases non-typical consumption of U and memory may be observed
[*]Import of a long s list from FDM3 may take a long time

Build 3127 (2014-09-08)
[*]Fixed bug: cyclic opening Chrome window when uninstalling FDM 5.0.3027 or later with Chrome extension.

Build 3126 (2014-09-02)
[*] Memory consumption and stability improvements.
[*] Fix: fdm.exe process could not finish after exit.
[*] Shift & Ctrl selection bugfixes.
[*] Fix: some UTF-8 chars could not be entered in the search box.
[+] s list: show “ complete” message for a few seconds after the has finished.
[+] Bottom : show the path.
[#] Combed font size, margins etc.

Build 3048 (2014-08-19)
[*] Stability improvements. A few more fixes are coming soon.
[*] Fix: could not certain videos from YouTube.
[*] Enter key was not working in the “Add ” popup window.
[*] Minor UI changes.

Build 3027 (2014-08-13)
[!] Build 3018 did not launch on Windows XP
[*] Fixed Chrome extension uninstalling bug
[#] Removed Unlimited speed mode, High is always unlimited

Build 3018(2014-08-11)
[*] Incorrect behaviour of the "Select all" checkbox fixed
[*] Bug of "Enter" button in the "Add " window fixed
[*] Some minor performance improvements
[*] Some minor bug fixes
[+] URL and domain name can be seen now in the bottom

Build 3003(2014-08-08)
[+] An ability to sort out s in all categories
[*] Change priority for torrent s bug fixed
[*] Some minor interface improvements
[*] Some outline bug fixes

Build 2992 (2014-08-06)
[*] Incorrect behavior of the ''Show in folder'' button fixed
[*] Some minor layout improvements
[*] Bug by ing torrent files with a lot of content fixed
[*] Activation/deactivation of the ''Start '' and ''Pause'' options fixed
[-] ''The speed limit'' option for the separate s temporarily removed (under development)

Build 2980 (2014-08-06)
[*] Some further Youtube improvements
[*] Many bug fixes in the speed limit settings
[*] Usability improvements
[*] Minor layout improvements

Build 2947 (2014-08-01)
[*] New list view
[+] Bottom shows file thumbnail
[+] BitTorrent checking progress
[+] Status bar added to show total / speed and choose speed limits
[*] Speed limit settings are extended & bug fixed
[*] YouTube improvements
[*] New batch operations (Pause/Continue/Move to..) on the toolbar
[*] Browser extension changes
[*] Minor UI changes
[*] Overall & stability improvements

Build 2733 (2014-07-10)
+ Web installer
+ Speed modes switch and settings (Settings > Network > Overall speed modes)
+ s list: Ctrl+V opens Add dialog with the URL from clipboard
+ Option to enable Peer Exchange (previously it was always enabled)
- Some installers were launched with minimized UAC request
- File tree: could not expand some tree elements
* Display "index.html" as a file name when the latter is unknown
* Close menus when the window is losing focus
* Video thumnails generation performance & bug fixes
* Minor UI changes
* Overall & stability improvements

Build 2627 (2014-06-27)
[+] Thumbnails for video files
[+] Limit number of sections for video s
[-] Torrent tracker list: some statuses were not displayed
[*] Increased UI performance
[*] Stability improvements

Build 2601 (2014-06-25)
[-] Last folder was not selected when adding
[-] Video ing bug
[*] Improved UI performance (we keep working on it)
[*] libtorrent updated to 1.0 RC3
[*] Stability improvements
[*] Minor UI fixes

Build 2571 (2014-06-20)
[*] Minor UI changes (Chrome-like main menu).

Build 2559 (2014-06-20)
Brand new alpha release.

[max]

It looks disgusting, really disgusting.
And I bet there's no way at all to switch to a professional interface, more like the old version.

[guest123141324132]

looks good! a more modern interface indeed, i hope to see easy access remains for ing of videos and torrents, having to go through 3 or 4 different areas to get to it would be a turn off. Great work and great software!

[Guest]

Well... it's a good example of why one should always keep backups of previous versions of program installers in case the developers go crazy and chase the minimalist trend we've current got in UI design. Why is there so much missing? Where's the buttons to quickly change speed? Where the buttons to start/stop all s? Are they now only available via right-click? Why are all the s spread out so much vertically? Now you can't fit as much detail in the same area as before... and for what?

[max]

May I continue the questions?

Where is the display of number of sections?
Where is the display of the log?
Where is the display of the progress?
Where is the tabular view of the list where you can see many more entries?
etc.
etc.
etc.

[Victoria Nelson]

Dear s!
We sincerely appreciate your , and we definitely will take into all your comments and wishes,

We also would like to explicitly stress that we are going to add the habitual Table View UI.
Other options mentioned in this thread will be added as well, including buttons that let you quickly switch the speed.

Please stay tuned,

Best regards,
Victoria

[Guest]

Well alright then. So long as you're listening.

[johnlgalt]

It's not only a matter of listening, it's a matter of the fact that it is Alpha software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_ ... life_cycle

[tabletguy]

The single biggest change that would get a lot more people trying this is to allow both the current version and the 5.0 version to install and run on the same computer. In other words, offer to copy all settings from the current 3.9 version when installing, but then keep all the settings separate.

[mack]

on the new version:
Windows 8.1 fully patched, Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 m, FDM 5.0 Alpha.
Youtube s seems to behave as before, i.e. FDM s the page not the embedded video file. Same result using copy and paste manual add URL, or drag and drop.
Experimented with things like leaving the video running in Chrome, etc. Same result.
I assume I'm doing something wrong, suggestions please?
YTD video er basic works correctly on the same link, but I would prefer to use FDM because of its scheduling capability.

Regards
mack

[Victoria Nelson]

Your is much appreciated,
To address the questions/comments:

offer to copy all settings from the current 3.9 version when installing, but then keep all the settings separate.

That's actually how everything works now. These versions are installed into separate folders, and FDM 5.0 initially copies the settings and s from FDM 3.9 but then stores them separately/independently. Please, let us know if you're experiencing anything unusual.

FDM s the page not the embedded video file

We are going to check out that Youtube problem, thanks for the heads up. Do you by any chance have the URLs you are pasting/dragging&dropping?

but I would prefer to use FDM because of its scheduling capability

Regarding the scheduling capability -- we apologize that it hasn't been included in the Alpha version, but it is on our TO-DO list.

[D. Yessa]

FDM s the page not the embedded video file. Same result using copy and paste manual add URL, or drag and drop.

Fixed in 2601.

[mack]

Hi, not sure what "2601" refers to, as in "fixed in 2601"?

URL I'm testing with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1dzWR3ghcA
Obtained by right click on video while playing or paused, and click on "Get video URL".
This is just one example, all the links I have the same structure, just the number part differs.

Thanks

[mack]

Ok got it, it's the build number, duh!
Mine is 2571, ed today.
I'll keep an eye out for newer versions.
Regards

[mack]

Is it ok to install a new build directly over the old one, or is it recommended to remove the old one first?