Firefox Download Manager Integration
V. 1.3.7 "Grab Whatever You Like"
If you find any bug or you'd like an enhancement, please report here or here. Many thanks!
Main good news are:
- FlashGot Media now reuses the streaming video cache directly for instantaneous downoads, when possible.
- Current download(s) information is displayed on the folder chooser title bar, in order to prevent mistakes.
- KGet support for multiple download links in a batch.
- Better unicode support in media name guessing.
- Download list window for the built-in download manager is now shown or left hidden according to Firefox's own general preferences.
- UA placeholder for user agent string available to custom download manager definitions
- User agent string support for wget and cURL, mimicking current Firefox's user agent header.
- Better accuracy of the Middle mouse button + drag down gesture, which triggers either FlashGot Link or FlashGot Selection, depending on the context (can be disabled by setting the flashgot.gesture about:config preference to false).
- Improved oron.com preprocessing for batch direct link downloads (similar FlashGot-supported preprocessed file sharing services are depositfiles.com, fileserve.com, filesonic.com, hotfile.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.com, uploading.com, uploaded.to, ul.to, zshare.com).
- Several performance optimizations, reducing startup time impact by a factor of 5.
- Batch download support for linksafe.me (other already supported link protection/redirection services are chooselinks.com, re-links.com, protectlinks.com, rapidsafe.net, relink.us, rsmonkey.com, hideurl.biz, ftp2share.net, rapidbolt.com, linkbank.eu, linkbucks.com, rsprotect.com
- Updated and enhanced batch download support for relink.us (other already supported link protection/redirection services are chooselinks.com, re-links.com, protectlinks.com, rapidsafe.net, rsmonkey.com, hideurl.biz, ftp2share.net, rapidbolt.com, linkbank.eu, linkbucks.com, rsprotect.com (WARNING: Feb 15 2009, the rsprotect.com web site is infected, don't open without NoScript enabled), link-protector.com, stealth.to and lix.in, urlcash.net).
- Rapidshare authorization token is "remembered" persistently by FlashGot after the first login from Firefox, in order to work around recent changes in the service forcing users to login very often.
- "FlashGot Tabs" hotkey relocated to Ctrl-Shift-F3 to prevent accidental reloads.
- Download Studio support (trial download here).
- Improved FlashGot Options|FlashGot Media panel, to choose a distinct download manager for streaming media capture. Firefox's built-in download manager is recommended because it uses browser's cache whenever possible and supports name guessing, and it's set as the default for FlashGot Media on new installatios.
- Windows visual download managers are fully supported on Linux and Mac OS X through Wine and Darwine (tested with FlashGet and Orbit Downloader on Ubuntu 8.0.4). You can enable or disable Wine support by setting the flashgot.useWine about:config preference to true or false.
More in the changelog...
FlashGot, the best Firefox download manager integration, has been honored in the May 2006 issue of PC World,
the most widely-read computer or business magazine, as one of the "101 Fabulous Freebies"
"Each download or service on the list impressed the editors with its functionality and usability,”
said Harry McCracken, VP/editor in chief of PC World. "These are some of the most well-crafted services available – congratulations to FlashGot!"
So...
Are you tired of "saving as..." one by one all those movies, music files, pictures, programs and so on?
Are you sick of getting them sooo slowly?
Are you afraid of losing them in the middle of download if you get disconnected or close your browser,
being forced to repeat all that tedious work?
Well, you need a
download manager...
But... Aaaargh!!! my download manager doesn't work with
Firefox! They say it does, but where is my Download All menu?
How can I handle the tons of mp3, mpeg, jpg files that I want to download?
Well, you definitely need...
FlashGot!
FlashGot is the free add-on for
Firefox and
Thunderbird,
meant to handle single and massive ("all" and
"selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
- for Windows (BitComet, Download Accelerator Plus, DownloadStudio, FlashGet, Free Download Manager, Fresh Download, GetRight, GigaGet, HiDownload, iGetter, InstantGet, Internet Download Accelerator, Internet Download Manager, JDownloader, LeechGet, Mass Downloader, Net Transport, NetXfer (Net Transport 2), NetAnts, Orbit, ReGet, Retriever*, Star Downloader, Thunder (Chinese only popular product), TrueDownloader and Ukrainian Download Master [Russian language only] ), Uget, WellGet, wxDFast
-
for Linux / FreeBSD / other Unix-like OSes
(Aria,
Axel Download Accelerator,
cURL,
Downloader 4 X,
FatRat,
GNOME Gwget,
FatRat,
JDownloader,
KDE KGet,
SteadyFlow,
Uget,
wxDFast
).
Many Windows-only download manager are supported on Linux through Wine! -
for Mac OS X
(Folx,
iGetter,
JDownloader
Leech,
Progressive Downloader,
Speed Download and
wxDFast*)
* wxDownload Fast for Mac OS X is currently available in source form only
FlashGot turns every supported download manager into a download manager for Firefox!
Is your preferred download manager not listed above? CLICK HERE
FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page, from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".
Motivation
Since I switched from MS Internet Explorer to a serious browser, I've had only one regret: I've been missing the ability to handle "massive downloads" through a multithreaded, file splitting download manager.
In IE there was a "Download all with MyNice DownloadManager" menu item, which delivered every link on a web page to the download manager, ready to be choosen and downloaded in batch.
There was nothing like this on Mozilla/Firefox, so I decided to build my solution with my own hands... and it works pretty well (at least for me).
Now, after many releases, FlashGot is probably the most advanced form of browser integration for download managers, often better than the native one provided for IE, featuring:
- a "FlashGot selection" command to selectively download items you highlight on the page (even pure textual links!)
- a Build Gallery command, helping you to auto-generate complete media gallery from partial ones to download at once all the contents in a serie.
- Convenient shortcuts and hooks for single downloads, like Alt+Click on a link and automatic interception of unknown content types, giving you the chance to override the default download manager when it is about to start.
- (more in the features page)
