The most annoying thing about Rapidshare is that downloads doesn’t
begin immediately. Users are first required to click on FREE and then
wait till the counter gets to zero, which can take up to a minute, and
then click on Download. Only then does the file download commence. If
you move away to other sites during the wait period and then forget
about it, after some time the session expires and you have to start all
over again.
But using userscripts in Firefox you can automate this entire process. A Greasemoneky script that does it is Rapidshare Flukke’s autodownloader (read the edit below) If you don’t already have Greasemonkey, then download it and install the script.
Now when you open a Rapidshare link in a tab, the script will automatically click on the FREE button, wait for the counter to finish counting and then automatically click on the download button and start downloading. No user intervention is required. These scripts make downloading from Rapidshare just like any other file download.
EDIT: Just found out about AIO Links Checker and not only is it a much better auto downloader but it also checks the links for you from many file hosts
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