What's the difference between the old and the current 'GetIt' button on Firefox

1. We added a very simple but practical function: When more than one video had been monitored on a page, you can choose the video you want to download by click the drop-down arrow of 'GetIt' button. Click the menuitem, then the download progress would be triggerred.

2.'GetIt' button would never affect your mouse action. Hover your mouse on the YouTube videos, it will appear the 'GetIt' button after monitore a video. You can click it and download the video. If you undo, 'GetIt' button will disappear after 4 seconds.

We will keep working on this issue.


Old 'GetIt' Button

New 'GetIt' Button

How to use GetIt button on Firefox?

You can download the video which is playing when you click the menuitem "Directly" or click "GetIt" button.

With Grab++ you can grab all URLs on the webpage.

Grab Pro can download video/music from the sites which are using anti-leeching technology like YouTube, IMEEM™...

This page is tutorials page.

'GetIt' button doesn't appear because of some unknown reasons sometimes,
you can use this function by right click on the page. Please make Firefox be monitored by Orbit first.

How to use GrabPro?

With 2 simple steps, Grab Pro can download any social media like download YouTube™ completed. And using the same way, Grab Pro can download IMEEM™, download Dailymotion™, download Pandora™ and download all social video and music easily.

Download Media Step 1: Play the media at the page. Grab Pro will start to grab the playing media automatically:

Download Media step 2: Click the yellow area to call out the item list. And click "Download it" to download the grabbed media:

Download Media step 3: You can open the file when it completed:

How to install GrabPro?

When you install our Orbit Downloader, please select the checkbox, and the GrabPro would be installed on your IE browser.

As the picture shows, the GrabPro could work well.

How to use Grab++?

You can use Grab++ to grab the video url then download it. Now I introduce you how to down Vimeo using Grab++.

Download vimeo video using Grab++
1. Run Orbit Downloader's Grab++ first:

2. Then play the vimeo video. When the video is played, its url is grabbed by Grab++:

3. Check the video in Grab++ then click 'Download' button. The video will be downloaded.

Why no 'GetIt' button on the flash or video?

The most probable reasons are:
You have not choose Tools-Enable 'GetIt' button for catching media.

The ‘GetIt’ button would appear normally in IE as the picture shows:

Or when you use firefox, there is a grey button on the top right corner of the video.
It's a small Orbit LOGO. You can click it to download the video instead of 'GetIt' button.

How to make Grab++ support Google Chrome

Our Orbit Downloader v2.8.11 make Grab++ support Google chrome, how to set it?

Firstly, make Grab++ run. Go to the main window and choose Tools-Grab++, Grab++ would be triggered.


Then we have to set the Preferences of Grab++.


Check the box "Chrome", your Grab++ could support Google Chrome now.

Browse Referer URL

No matter downloaded file or not, you can choose the "Browse Referer URL" on the context menu. Then it will open a new window on your brower, you can check the referer URL of the file. What is called referer URL? It is the web page which you downloaded from.

Download Yahoo music video easily

We will use the Grab Pro to download these music videos.


Choose any music video you like, and play it. Grab Pro will start to grab the Yahoo! automatically.
Click the yellow area to call out the item list. Click "Download it" to download the grabbed music video on Yahoo!. And you can open it when completed.


Please attention, the music video could be recorded when they are playing only. And, you must click to make it download within the time given.

How to set the Speed Limit

There are two ways to set it. Choose Tools-Speed Limit or Preferences-Limits, will get the same result. You can set the max simultaneous jobs, number of retries, speed limit and disk cache size. And, please remember that, the speed limit means including the limits of all tasks.

Three automatic functions on startup

Start Orbit on system startup
If it has been choosen, just as the name implies, Orbit will start automatically when the system startup.(I'm saying rubbish)

Show main window on startup
If it has not been choosen, Orbit will start with a minimize.

Automatically resume unfinished tasks on startup
If it has been choosen, the pause task will be downloaded automatically when Orbit start. You have no use for click it manually.

What does "Clipboard Monitoring" mean?

As the picture shows, the "Enter New Url To Download" will be triggerred when the clipboard including a usable URL if you choose the Clipboard Monitoring. Or the "Create Batch Download" will be triggerred if cluding more than one usable URL.

What does "Silent Mode" mean?

If the 'Enable Silent Mode' on Preferences- Silent Mode is checked, the 'Create new download' dialog would not display when the URL is clicked or dragged to the dropzone.

In other words, the task will be downloaded directly and need not to set it anymore.

Why no 'GetIt' button on the flash or video?

The most likely reasons are:
You have not choose Tools-Enable 'GetIt' button for catching media.


Or you use firefox, there is a grey button on the top right corner of the video. It's a small Orbit LOGO. You can click it to download the video instead of 'GetIt' button.

Three automatical functions When Done

Turn Off Computer When Done
Choose this menuitem, the computer will turn off automatically when all downloading tasks have done.

Hang Up When Done
The computer will disconnect the network when all downloading tasks have done.

Exit Orbit When Done
As the name implies, it will exit OrbitDownloader when all downloading tasks have done.

How to set the Scheduler?

Firstly, the scheduler is only works when you set it at the beginning of downloading. As the picture shows, you must click "More" and choose "Schedule" when you build a new task.

Next, go to set the Scheduler. It will download at the time you set. Download once a day, or daily both are OK. Also, downloading will stop at the time you set it.


And the task which had been set the Scheduler, will show a clock light as you see.

How to switch between small and big icons?

Go to View-Show Big Icons, and click this menuitem, these 7 icons (New, Start, Pause, Delete, Scheduler, Report Bug and Preferences) will change to big icons. And click it again, it will go back to small icons.




And click the right button on the Toolbar, you can change it also.

What do these Status lights mean?

From the top down, as the picture shows:


The red light means a failed download. You can try it again if you want, also you can delete it directly.
The second light means the task is connecting.
The clock light means this task is a scheduler task, it will be downloaded in time you have setted.
The blue light means a pausing task, you can start it or delete it.
The green light means a downloading task, you can pause it or delete it.
And the last light means the task is in waiting list.

Does Orbit Downloader have a preference to limit the download speed?

Yes, in the Preferences-Limits. It allows you to set a download speed, and set it to Limit, or go full speed. The limit speed is the summation of all tasks.

Download vimeo video easily

When I watch the video 'Ubiquity for Firefox' in Vimeo, I find that I did not write a tutorial for how to use Orbit Downloader as a Vimeo downloader to download Vimeo video.

It is easy too. You can use Grab++ to grab the video url then download it or you can record it when you watch it in IE using Grab Pro toolbar. Now I introduce you how to down Vimeo using Grab++ first, then Grab Pro toolbar.

Download vimeo video using Grab++
1. Run Orbit Downloader's Grab++ first:


2. Then play the vimeo video. When the video is played, its url is grabbed by Grab++:


3. Check the video in Grab++ then click 'Download' button. The video will be downloaded.




Download vimeo video using Grab Pro toolbar
1. When vimeo video is begin to play, Grab Pro is grabbed it:


2. Click 'Download it', the vimeo video will be downloaded.