A cleaner log for a download in progress. 1.0.48 started leaving a trail
through segmented downloads so a stalled one could say where it stopped. Two
things about it were wrong.
Progress arrived out of order — 250/509 before 100/509 before 350/509 —
because it counted each connection's own segment number, and a download runs
sixteen of them at once. It counts finished segments across the whole transfer
now, so the number only goes up.
And a segment was called slow at twenty seconds, which on a busy site is simply
how long a segment takes when sixteen connections share it: one healthy download
produced forty warnings. Slow is now measured against that download's own
average, so a genuinely stuck segment stands out and an ordinarily slow site
says nothing.
Nothing else changed. Encrypted video, fixed in 1.0.48, is unaffected.
This is a beta. If something does not work, please open an
issue — the templates ask for the log, which is usually the whole
answer. Toolbar → Log → Copy.
Downloads
Every platform has both: an installer, and a portable copy
that keeps its files wherever you put them and can replace itself
in place.
| Platform | Installer | Portable |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | ixd-*-windows-x64-setup.exe |
ixd-*-windows-x64.zip |
| macOS (Apple silicon) | ixd-*-macos-arm64.pkg, or the .dmg |
ixd-macos-arm64.zip |
| Linux | ixd_*_amd64.deb |
ixd-linux-x86_64.tar.gz |
The Windows installer asks whether to install for everyone — which
needs administrator and goes to Program Files — or just for you,
which needs nothing and goes to %APPDATA%\IXD.
The *-selfupdate* archives are the portable copies that are allowed
to replace their own folder when a new version appears. The ordinary
ones never touch themselves.
Start the application once, then load the extension from the folder
it writes. The two browsers need different manifests under the same
filename, so they get a folder each.
| Chrome / Edge / Brave | Firefox | |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | ~/.local/share/ixd/extension |
~/.local/share/ixd/extension-firefox |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\IXD\extension |
%APPDATA%\IXD\extension-firefox |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/IXD/extension |
…/extension-firefox |
Chrome: chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked →
the folder. Firefox: about:debugging → Load Temporary Add-on →
manifest.json inside the folder.
Before you report a problem
macOS is unverified. It builds and packages on a macOS runner and
has never been launched on real hardware. A report either way is
genuinely useful — including "it just worked". It is also neither
signed nor notarised, so the first launch needs right-click → Open,
or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "Internet Xtreme Downloader.app".
Windows: the first launch takes a while. Windows scans the whole
folder before it runs anything from it. Later launches are immediate.
Linux is the platform this is developed on and gets the most use.
Built from 26f9f66 on 2026-08-30.