cool, got a few of these
what about browser extensions?
I've become fond of DownThemAll for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/Not sure about the accelerated download speeds, but i do like seeing more detailed info on the download progress, and having the 'DTA One-Click' set up, it will just immediately download the file to a directory of your choice and open up the DownThemAll window so you can see progress of your download(s), and it will play a sound when it's done downloading stuff
For Chrome, i have
RSS Feed Reader, which is like subscribing to RSS feeds in Firefox, except instead of the feeds being bookmarks that update, it has it's own menu where the feeds are stored, and you can click the checkmark next to new feeds to mark them as read
Also, if you watch streams on Twitch, i recommend
Better TwitchTV, which lets you change Twitch to a dark theme that's easier on the eyes and makes chat messages easier to read, it can separate messages from each other, you have the choice to use Twitch's emotes, or the JustinTV monkey emotes (which i personally never liked), you can have a select bunch of emotes put into your favorites so you have easy access to them rather than looking through that long list of emoticons for them, there's also custom Twitch emotes that are exclusive to Better TwitchTV that only users of this extension can see, and it has many other options to toy with to make Twitch suit your needs!
So basically, why
WOULDN'T you get this?