9mo ago

Download Navi hasn't been updated in 3 years. Will it be a security risk if I keep using it? Are there any good alternatives if it is a risk?

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Looks like the author is still active and looking for funding: https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi
But development seems to have stopped indeed. There is a fork, with new developers, that is actively being worked on: https://github.com/Davilarek/download-navi
- Not sure I would call that "active". No activity in over a year. And even that was just changing a couple markdown files.
For offline software I wouldn't consider it a problem, but for something that connects to the internet I would want it to have the latest versions of its dependencies.
It looks like the dev has been updating their funding details recently, hopefully they have an update planned.
https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi/commits/master/
I've always wondered what's the use of a download manager, especially on a smartphone. What's your use case?
- Firefox's default in-built download manager is hot garbage. It is so much more reliable to download multiple large files at once with a resource-friendly download manager.
- I've always found download managers to be faster than browsers in downloading
  
  Ok, but what do you download on your smartphone?
- Yep same question
Unfortunately alternative are closed source (ADM , IDM ) , I've heard that free download manager was open source but even if it's still , I won't recommend it because it was reported that it redirected Linux users to malicious links

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