Firefox Download Manager Integration
V. 1.1.1.1 "Mass Media Downloader"
Main good news are:
- FlashGot Media statusbar icon, appearing when intercepted streams are available. Left click downloads all the streams of the page, right click opens a contextual menu for individual choice.
- Restored depositfiles.com support after service layout change.
- Improved FlashGot Media command intercepts streaming video and audio clips while they're playing and sends them to your download manager. Heavily tested on Youtube movies, it works with many other kinds of content as well.
- Download Studio support (trial download here).
- Improved "Built in" support.
- Windows visual download managers are now 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 disable Wine support setting the flashgot.useWine about:config preference to false.
- FlashGot API and mouse tracking are more gesture friendly: any gesture starting from a link or performed while a selection
is active will "smartly" trigger either FlashGot All or FlashGot Selection if configured to call
gFlashGot.download(). - Batch download support for many anonymize/redirection services (anonym.to, tinyurl.com, moourl.com, anonymz.com, shorten.ws, tubeurl.com)
- Batch download support for link protection services such as ftp2share.net, rapidbolt.com, linkbank.eu, linkbucks.com and rsprotect.comlink-protector.com, stealth.to and lix.in.
- Batch download support for megaupload.com, rapidshare.com and depositfiles.com registered accounts.
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 getting spyware, trojans, viruses and all that bad stuff surfing the web?
Well, you need
a browser safer than Firefox
(a good anti-spyware tool may help, too).
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
Mozilla /
Firefox / Flock
/
Thunderbird
extension,
meant to handle single and massive ("all" and
"selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
- for Windows (BitComet, Download Accelerator Plus, Download Studio FlashGet, Free Download Manager, Fresh Download, GetRight, GigaGet, HiDownload, iGetter, InstantGet, Internet Download Accelerator, Internet Download Manager, 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] ), WellGet, wxDFast
-
for Linux / FreeBSD / other Unix-like OSes
(Aria,
cURL,
Downloader 4 X,
GNOME Gwget
and KDE KGet,
wxDFast
).
Since FlashGot version 0.9.9, many Windows-only download manager are supported on Linux through Wine! -
for Mac OS X
(iGetter,
Leech,
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".
Important notice!
Do not tell us or others that "FlashGot doesn't work" if you have no download manager installed or,
worse, if you don't know what a download manager is.
If it is not clear enough, let's put it in bold letters:
in order to use this extension,
YOU REALLY NEED AN EXTERNAL DOWNLOAD MANAGER
(pick yours in the dozen listed above).
FlashGot was born only to integrate Firefox with external download manager programs:
no wonder that if no download manager is installed, FlashGot does not work!
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)
