FlashGot Updates

FlashGot 1.5.5.4

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:58:15 +0000

x [Media] Fixed Youtube multiple formats sniffing
  sometimes causing detected streams to be prefetched
x [Media] Restored compatibility with Gecko < 2.0
x [Built-in DM] User-facing error message if the
  directory selected for download doesn't exist and
  cannot be created
x [Built-in DM] User-facing error message if the
  downloaded file cannot be written on disk

FlashGot 1.5.5.3

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:51:19 +0000

x [Media] Improved file name guessing (thanks nagan
  for reporting)
x [Locale] Updated French (thanks Jack Black)

FlashGot 1.5.5.2

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:22:28 +0000

x [Media] Detection of fragmented Youtube movies
  inside Flash applets (thanks nagan for reporting)
x [Media] Further improvement in Dailymotion support
  (thanks therube for reporting)
x [Media] Better support for fragmented Dailymotion
  videos (thanks to chichi et al for reporting)

FlashGot 1.5.5.1

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:51:09 +0000

x [Media] Fixed Youtube content detection broken on
  Gecko < 2.0 (thanks Joe Greenman for reporting)
x [Media] Fixed FLV and MP4 movies not being detected
  if the Content-length HTTP header is missing
x [Media] Made Youtube metadata retrieval subrequests
  honor private browsing settings
x Made redirection automation background requests
  honor private browsing settings

FlashGot 1.5.5

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:13:13 +0000

+ [Media] Automatic detection of alternate available
  resolutions and formats for Youtube movies
x [Media] Minor content type detection bug fix
+ Added timestamp to log entries (thanks GµårÐïåñ
  for RFE)
+ Log buffers get automatically flushed whenever the
  log file is opened in the browser

FlashGot 1.5.4.3

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:22:40 +0000

+ Support for "FlashGot All" on XML documents with
  URL-like attributes

FlashGot 1.5.4.2

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:45:37 +0000

+ Improved generic URL parameter redirector, does not
  break on some tracking Google results anymore
+ Added flashgot.redir.generic.exceptions preference
  to exclude incompatible URLs from generic URL
  parameter redirection via space-separated regular
  expressions
+ Support for DTA 3.0 Private Browsing (thanks Nils
  Maier for suggestion)

FlashGot 1.5.4.1

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:11:30 +0000

x Better support for per-window Private Browsing

FlashGot 1.5.4

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:26:47 +0000

+ [Media] Right-clicking any URL in the Media menu
  copies it to clipboard (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE)

FlashGot 1.5.3

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:01:11 +0000

+ [Chooser] Improved destination path selection
  behavior makes copy and paste easier
x Fixed on the fly download when changing the default
  download manager not working for single links
x [Media] Fixed flashing icon hidden on some popup
  windows (thanks nagan for reporting)

FlashGot 1.5.2

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:05:31 +0000

+ dfiles.eu (FKA depositfiles.com) support
x Fixed Linux terminal support broken in some distros
x Fixed FlareGet support broken in some distros
+ Support for on-the-fly Linux $PATH customization
+ [Media] Fixed Daylimotion support broken when
  there's no query string (thanks therube for report)
+ [Media] Support for dailymotion.com fragmented
  video clips

FlashGot 1.5.1

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:30:30 +0000

+ [Chooser] Addedd access keys
+ [Chooser] Download list sortable by any attribute
+ [Chooser] "Select All" and "Invert Selection"
+ [Chooser] Automatic choice for URLs including the
  "file" or the "download" word
+ [Media] Added checkbox to control toolbar
  button visibility in the "Media" options tab
+ Added HTML 5 @download support
x Improved file name support
x [Media] Improved toolbar icon customization
  persistence
x [Media] Toolbar icon placement can be customized
  even if no media is playing
x [Chooser] Added persistent option to choose all
  the items by default
x [Chooser] Improved initial auto-selection

FlashGot 1.5.1rc1

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:54:40 +0000

+ Added HTML 5 @download support
x Improved file name support
x [Media] Improved toolbar icon customization
  persistence
x [Media] Toolbar icon placement can be customized
  even if no media is playing
x [Chooser] Added persistent option to choose all
  the items by default
x [Chooser] Improved initial auto-selection

FlashGot 1.5

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:29:07 +0000

+ Brand new multiple links selector dialog shown for
  download managers (such as the built-in or
  JDownloader) which don't provide their own
x Fixed media icon disappearing when localstore.rdf
  gets reset or deleted
x Removed deprecated octal numeric constants usage
x Restored imagefap.com automatic gallery spidering
  (thanks nuncus for reporting)

FlashGot 1.4.8.6

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:41:17 +0000

+ Added recent folders autocompletion support to
  built-in save path chooser (thanks Scott Merrill
  for RFE)
x Restored FlareGet support (broken because of Debian
  packaging case rules)
+ Added fname support for links diverted from the
  "Save as" dialog

FlashGot 1.4.8.5

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:16:11 +0000

+ Full FlareGet support
x Fixed FlashGot Media still affected by the built-in
  download manager Unicode bug, preventing it from
  working on some locales (thanks taglife for report)

FlashGot 1.4.8.4

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:58:15 +0000

x Fixed About dialog URLs typos and made it close as
  soon as a link is opened (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE)
x [Media] Fixed icon flashing multiple times on
  chunked content even though just one (artificially
  collapsed) media URL is shown to the user (thanks
  al_9x for reporting)
x [Media] Reduced noise by skipping the unsupported
  and possibly encrypted mp2ts chunked video format
x Restored built-in download manager compatibility
  with Nightly by adding private mode support (thanks
  helpfulboy02 for reporting)

FlashGot 1.4.8.3

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:30:31 +0000

+ Cookie support in FlareGet
+ Support for ZigzagDownLoader
x Tentative work-around for bug 795683

FlashGot 1.4.8.2

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:41:51 +0000

+ Media file name support in FlareGet
x Fixed media icon being shown even if the HTTP
  response status is error (thanks al_9x for report)
x Fixed mispellings in Chinese localizations (thanks
  taglife for reporting)
x Fixed built-in download manager could not be
  selected as the FlashGot Media default if its name
  locale translation contained non-ASCII characters
  (thanks taglife for reporting)
x Fixed media icon shown on unrelated windows
  sometimes (thanks al_9x for reporting)
x Removed some Error Console noise on media detection

FlashGot 1.4.8.1

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:07:19 +0000

x Fixed regression, some downloads failing on
  progress notifications (thanks Juan Manuel Velazque
  for reporting)

FlashGot 1.4.8

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:47:59 +0000

+ [Media] Tentative size extraction even when the
  media resource is served in small chunks (e.g. some
  some Youtube clips lately, thanks nagan for report)
+ [DMS] Added FlareGet support
x Work-around for JavaScript octal literals being
  deprecated in recent Firefox versions

FlashGot 1.4.7

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:40:28 +0000

+ [Media] Added support for recognizing m4v files
  as mp4 even with incorrect mime type headers (
  thanks Splash Team for report)
x [Media] Improved file name detection

FlashGot 1.4.6

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:36:01 +0000

x [Media] Fixed moving the FlashGot Media icon in the
  Customize Toolbars palette didn't cause the icon to
  permanently stay there
x [Media] Fixed hiding the addon bar makes the Media
  icon relocate itself automatically to the navigation
  bar
+ [Media] Prevented asx files from doubleclick ads
  (e.g. on Youtube preroll) to clutter FlashGot Media
  menu (controlled by flashgot.media.skipAds
  preference)
+ [Locale] Updated localizations

FlashGot 1.4.5

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:46:33 +0000

+ Support for latest DtA development version (thanks
  d_a for reporting)
x [Media] Fixed detection failing on Firefox 15
x [Media] Better adaptivity of the flashing icon

FlashGot 1.4.4

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:29:34 +0000

x Fixed cursor feedback being triggered by middle
  click scrolling near the bottom border (thanks
  Infocatcher for report)

FlashGot 1.4.3

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:05:43 +0000

+ flashgot.gesture.feedback about:config switch
x Fixed issues with gesture activation and feedback
  (thanks therube for reporting)
- Removed cursor feedback on progress

FlashGot 1.4.2

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:11:53 +0000

+ Cursor feedback on middle button + south gesture
+ Cursor feedback on download preparation progress
+ Better accuracy of middle button + south gesture
x Replaced all new Date().getTime() occurrences with
  Date.now() to reduce object creations

FlashGot 1.4.1

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:18:41 +0000

x Compatibility with misconfigured providers serving
  media with a text/html content type header, such as
  www.aljazeera.net
x Restored Win2k compatibility

FlashGot 1.4

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:05:17 +0000

x Fixed bugs in HTTP Authorization data handling
+ FlashGet 3.7 compatibility

FlashGot 1.3.9

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:11:30 +0000

+ [Media] Work-around to download whole Youtube media
  even when served split in 2MB chunks
  2MB chunks
x Increased to 500,000 bytes the minimum size
  threshold for flv/mp4 triggering FlashGot Media

FlashGot 1.3.8

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:07:01 +0000

+ [Media] Support for POST media requests
x Updated chooselink.com, re-links.com and
  linksafe.me redirect support
x Experimental support for arcpass and httpauth
  JDownloader parameters (not exposed yet by any public
  JDownloader build)

FlashGot 1.3.7

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:42:09 +0000

+ [Media] FlashGot Media now reuses the streaming
  cache directly, rather than forcing the file cache
  (this also fixes an issue with some videos being
  playable just once)

FlashGot 1.3.6

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:35:33 +0000

+ [Media] media files now get deleted from the cache
  as soon as the page loading them is unloaded,
  unless a download is in progress (controlled by the
  flashgot.media.removeCacheFileOnUnload, thanks
  sloth9 for RFE)

FlashGot 1.3.5

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:34:46 +0000

x Fixed "FlashGot All" and "FlashGot Selection"
  broken on latest Nightly

FlashGot 1.3.4

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:50:07 +0000

+ Link for single download or number and domains for
  batches is shown in the folder chooser title

FlashGot 1.3.3

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:28:46 +0000

x Fixed new wget server-provided file names handling
  getting confused sometimes

FlashGot 1.3.2

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:35:27 +0000

+ Better FlashGot Media name guessing management with
  DownThemAll! One Link
x Fixed using the "Clear Log" command disables
  logging until browser gets restarted
x Fixed "FlashGot Tabs" not working if any non-HTML
  document is present among tabs (thanks drsood for
  reporting)

FlashGot 1.3.1

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:08:26 +0000

+ KGet multiple links batch support
+ Restored downloading media from cache on Gecko 2
  and above (it needs caching as file to be forced
  for plugin streams, you can disable it by setting
  the flashgot.media.forceCacheAsFile about:config
  preference to false)
x Fixed duplicate entries appearing in the FlashGot
  Media menu after a download being started from
  the built-in download manager or DownThemAll!

FlashGot 1.3.0.6

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:49:27 +0000

x Fixed FlashGot Media name guessing truncates last
  character sometimes
x Nightly (9.0a1) compatibility

FlashGot 1.3.0.5

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:33:10 +0000

x Better special unicode characters handling in auto-
  detected filenames (thanks nagan for reporting)
x Fixed download manager window not automatically being
  shown when using the built-in manager

FlashGot 1.3.0.4

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:43:29 +0000

x Restored Firefox 2 compatibility

FlashGot 1.3.0.3

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:33:05 +0000

+ UA placeholder for user agent string available to
  custom download manager definitions (thanks joe
  william for RFE)
+ User agent string support for wget
+ User agent string support for cURL
+ Version number displayed in the About menu item
x Fixed FlashGot Media toolbar button causing search
  box not to being resizable if placed on the
  navigation toolbar (default if the add-on bar is
  hidden)
x Fixed FlashGot's gesture toggling zoom on image
  doucuments (thanks anonymous_user for report)
x [L10N] Updated ca-AD

FlashGot 1.3.0.2

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:40:20 +0000

+ FlashGot Options command in FlashGot Media menu,
  jumping directly to the FlashGot Media tab
+ Last tab selection persistence in FlashGot Options
  dialog
x Fixed FlashGot.exe not being updated on upgrades
  when needed, sometimes

FlashGot 1.3.0.1

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:04:36 +0000

x Fixed FlashGot Media context menu missing when the
  addon bar is hidden

FlashGot 1.3

Sat, 21 May 2011 22:22:51 +0000

+ Improved styling of the new FlashGot Media toolbar
  button

FlashGot 1.2.9.4

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:32:44 +0000

x [L10n] Updated ru (thanks Водкотерапевт)
x Increased the minimum vertical drag threshold for
  the mouse-down south gesture to 16 pixels, in order
  to minimize the chances for accidental triggering

FlashGot 1.2.9.3

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:58:52 +0000

x Work-around for a Roboform bug causing new browser
  windows to be messed when FlashGot is installed

FlashGot 1.2.9.2

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:56:09 +0000

x Fixed regression: options dialog not shown first
  time it's invoked from elsewhere than context menu
  (thanks Janne Hyvärinen for reporting)

FlashGot 1.2.9.1

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:14:02 +0000

x Fixed regression: additional download manager
  entries not shown in context menu

FlashGot 1.2.9

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:13:19 +0000

+ Several startup time optimizations
+ Linksafe.me batch download support