I am an expert user and would like to alter internal configurations of this extension to optimize it for my usage. So use higher threads only if the memory allocation is not an issue for you. If the user requests to download a job with for instance eight threads and the file is big enough, the memory usage could be about 800MBytes. On default configuration, this extension uses three threads, and each fetch method downloads up to 100MBytes of data, which means the extension uses about 300MBytes for each active downloading job. Also, each thread allocates additional memory, which increases the total memory usage of the extension during the job fetching. Note that each thread act as a separate job, and hence increasing the number of threads although increases the downloading speed, it increases the disk access too. If such a case occurs, the extension uses the built-in download manager to fetch the requested file. There are situations where a server does not support range downloading, and in these cases, it is not possible to download with multiple threads. This extension by default uses three threads for each downloading job, which is the recommended value and can increase the downloading speed up to three times. What is the default number of threads that this extension uses, and what is the recommended value? Since the extension stores data in chunks, the memory fingerprint of the extension is always acceptable even if a very large file is being downloaded. If for any reason you have access to a faster network, it is recommended to use the default download manager of your browser. At this point, the extension is capable of reading data from a server and writing to the internal storage at up to 80Mbytes/s. This extension uses the native API to move the chunked data from the internal storage to the default download directory hence the record of your download will be kept by your browser similar to a normal download that is fetched directly by the default download manager of your browser. When the file is fully fetched from the server, the segments are merged and the file is saved in the default download directory of your browser. Theoretically, since each thread act as a separate downloader, the downloading speed increases when the number of threads increases. The chunked binary data is stored into the temporary internal IndexedDB storage. The extension is capable of downloading a single file from multiple threads.

It is heavily dependent on new methods that are introduced in ES6 such as the streaming fetch API and async calls.

This is the third edition of the 'Turbo Download Manager (TDM)' extension. What is the 'Turbo Download Manager (3rd edition)' extension?

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