Browser integration

What is browser integration?
Internet Download Accelerator integrates with browser to simplify adding a download and ease your work. After integration is enabled Internet Download Accelerator will automatically intercept Internet Explorer downloads and integrates to the browser context menu.

Guaranteed link capture
If you want to provide guaranteed link capture by IDA on your site (for MSIE) you can use the following request parameter (download=dm). To transfer a file description to the program use (description=...). For example: http://www.westbyte.com/cgi-bin/click/clicksql.cgi?l=532&download=ida&description=Skin XPstyle__Creator Egik;

Integration options
To tune the integration options open the options dialog box and click the ôGeneralö tab.


If this option is checked Internet Download Accelerator will intercept Internet Explorer downloads.


If the flag is set, then IDA will intercept all Internet Explorer downloads if the Alt key is pressed and ignore all downloads if the Ctrl key is pressed.


If this option is checked Internet Download Accelerator will intercept Netscape (ver. 6.x-7.x), Mozilla downloads.


If this option is checked Internet Download Accelerator will intercept Opera downloads.
( i ) For changes to take effect after toggling the flag you have to restart the browser and choose File->Preferences... Multimedia. Then click the "Find plug-ins..." button. After that click OK in all appearing windows and finally click the "Apply" button . If it doesn't work repeat the above sequence once again.

Automatically start download for files with the following extensions

The list of extensions for which Internet Download Accelerator will intercept Internet Explorer downloads or start a download when a link to a file with one of the specified extensions appears in the clipboard.
( i ) For changes to take effect close and then open again the Internet Explorer window.

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