I've started searching for an alternative download accelerator.
So far, the best option seems to be the Citrio browser. It's downloading capabilities are on par with dTa: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/articles/citrio-a-chrome-like-...
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With the new APIs, you should be able to have 4 web workers do the downloads in parallel still. (Based on how chrome handles such things)
web workers don't have anything except message passing ability to the main js thread, they cant open sockets, and they can modify the dom, they are nearly worthless.
My understanding is that you can use WebSockets within a web worker. But I haven't done it myself, so that could be wrong. In any event, the service worker specs are all still evolving, and I expect that as people try to build more sophisticated extensions on top of these APIs, they will mature to allow more sophisticated behavior.