I snagged the latest IDLEfork this morning and updated my ftplib example to download something smaller than a 5 meg file. It worked great on my dev box on cable, but it took a long time on a box at work running DSL, and I thought of the poor dialup users. That’s fixed, it now downloads a file that is a couple of hundred k.
I like IDLEfork so far, it seems to perform well. I wound up having 4 or 5 windows open at one point, as it seems to spawn a new window for each file opened or script run. I like progress though.