Version history for FlashGot
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Changes for v1.5.6.11 - v1.5.6.12
- "[Middle Button Drag Down] gesture starts FlashGot downloads" checkbox in FlashGot Options
- Gesture is not processed at all if disabled
- Fixed Link Chooser not properly honoring its "Choose all items by default" checkbox (thanks BaptX for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.6.10 - v1.5.6.11
- Fixed built-in download manager not working on Samonkey 33 and above (thanks therube for report)
- Fixed incompatibility with recent Gecko versions, sending raw POST data with preamble headers (thanks MoSal for report and flashgot.user for patch)
- New custom download manager argument placeholder "RAWPOST", sends the raw POST upload data including its headers (thanks flashgot.user for patch)
- New custom download manager argument placeholder "HEADERS" sends just the POST data headers (thanks flashgot.user for patch)
Changes for v1.5.6.9 - v1.5.6.10
- Folx 4 and 3 support as "Folx" (legacy support as "Folx 2")
- [Linux] Support for 5 additional terminal emulators (konsole, lxterminal, urxvt, rxvt, xfce4-terminal, thanks Mathias Bauer for patch)
Changes for v1.5.6.8 - v1.5.6.9
- Fixed JDownloader2 detection issue (thanks user for patch)
- Updated Youtube support (thanks user for patch)
Changes for v1.5.6.7 - v1.5.6.8
- Support for full encryption on https://flashgot.net
- Gracefully handle malformed referrer URIs
- [Unix] Turned the "Press any key to exit..." prompt (which was a lie) into "Press [ENTER] to quit..." The flashgot.term.autoClose about:config preference can be set to either to -1 (default) to prompt, 0 to close the terminal immediately, or an integer number of seconds to wait before closing
- [Media] Restored pre-1.5.6.6 title extrapolation from top window, rather than local window. Local window title can be reactivated by setting the flashgot.media.use_iframe_title pref. to true
Changes for v1.5.6.6 - v1.5.6.7
- Terminal windows attached to Linux/OS X download managers are now paused on completion with "Press any key to exit...", unless you set the "flashgot.term.autoClose" about:config preference to a non-negative integer value, meaning the number of seconds to wait before automatically closing.
- Fixed regression causing download managers which require a terminal to fail (thanks hobbitland for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.6.5 - v1.5.6.6
- [Media] Several media capturing improvements (thanks user for patches)
- [Build Gallery] Fixed functions evaluation broken on recent Firefox versions (thanks user for patch)
- [Chooser] Fixed recent directory autocompletion by mouse not working in Firefox 32 and above
- [Unix] Customizable terminal/launcher: if a "flashgot-term" script is found in $PATH it gets passed a "FlashGot (number of links)" string as its first argument (to be used as the terminal title), followed by the actual executable with arguments
Changes for v1.5.6.3 - v1.5.6.5
- [Mac] Fixed external download manager detection broken on Mac OS X in Firefox 32 and above
Changes for v1.5.6.2 - v1.5.6.3
- Better ZiZagDownloader support (thanks ZONINOZ for patch)
Changes for v1.5.6.1 - v1.5.6.2
- [Media] Improved Youtube and embedly.com support (thanks "user" for patch)
Changes for v1.5.6 - v1.5.6.1
- [Media] Fixed regression in IFrames media detection (thanks "user" for patch)
- [Media] Fixed typo in Youtube module
Changes for v1.5.5.99 - v1.5.6
- [Media] Improved Youtube HD movies detection (thanks "user" for patch)
Changes for v1.5.5.98 - v1.5.5.99
- Xtreme Download Manager support
Changes for v1.5.5.97 - v1.5.5.98
- Folx 3 supportx Fixed sandboxed Youtube signature decoding breaking Flashblock
- MultiGet download manager supportx Fixed pyLoad being automatically selected even if not present
- Updated imagebam.com direct download support
Changes for v1.5.5.96 - v1.5.5.97
- Fixed generic redirection resolution breaking web.archive.org downloads (thanks msjs for report)
- Fixed generic redirection resolution exceptions not working as intended (thanks barbaz for debugging)
- Updated uGet's display name to its currently preferred capitalization
- [Built-in DM] Fixed file name sanitization bug ( thanks George Karas for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.5.95 - v1.5.5.96
- [YouTube] New hd1440 DASH format detection (thanks user and al_9x)
- pyLoad support (thanks pgoeri for patch)
- Support for forced file names with uGet (thanks Visuex for RFE)
- uGet support on Windows put on par with Linux
Changes for v1.5.5.94 - v1.5.5.95
- [Media] Detection of Youtube's demuxed streams (DASH, thanks user for patch)
- Fixed command line escaping issue on Windows, thanks vipiish for patch
Changes for v1.5.5.8 - v1.5.5.94
- [Media] Fixed regression breaking Youtube detection on Firefox < 24
- [Media] Support for some Youtube formats which had been hidden in the "official" API (thanks "user")
Changes for v1.5.5.5 - v1.5.5.8
- Fixed regression in versioning management
Changes for v1.5.5.4 - v1.5.5.5
- Fixed error logging bug (thanks therube for report)
- Fixed regression in name guessing based on document title (thanks GµårÐïåñ for report)
- Added logging for original error messages on failed file writes
- Fixed cookie handling for TLD-less URLs (thanks jumpy21230 for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.5.3 - v1.5.5.4
- [Media] Fixed Youtube multiple formats sniffing sometimes causing detected streams to be prefetched
- [Media] Restored compatibility with Gecko < 2.0
- [Built-in DM] User-facing error message if the directory selected for download doesn't exist and cannot be created
- [Built-in DM] User-facing error message if the downloaded file cannot be written on disk
Changes for v1.5.5.2 - v1.5.5.3
- [Media] Improved file name guessing (thanks nagan for reporting)
- [Locale] Updated French (thanks Jack Black)
Changes for v1.5.5.1 - v1.5.5.2
- [Media] Detection of fragmented Youtube movies inside Flash applets (thanks nagan for reporting)
- [Media] Further improvement in Dailymotion support (thanks therube for reporting)
- [Media] Better support for fragmented Dailymotion videos (thanks to chichi et al for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.5 - v1.5.5.1
- [Media] Fixed Youtube content detection broken on Gecko < 2.0 (thanks Joe Greenman for reporting)
- [Media] Fixed FLV and MP4 movies not being detected if the Content-length HTTP header is missing
- [Media] Made Youtube metadata retrieval subrequests honor private browsing settings
- Made redirection automation background requests honor private browsing settings
Changes for v1.5.4.3 - v1.5.5
- [Media] Automatic detection of alternate available resolutions and formats for Youtube movies
- [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
Changes for v1.5.4.2 - v1.5.4.3
- Support for "FlashGot All" on XML documents with URL-like attributes
Changes for v1.5.4.1 - v1.5.4.2
- 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)
Changes for v1.5.4 - v1.5.4.1
- Better support for per-window Private Browsing
Changes for v1.5.3 - v1.5.4
- [Media] Right-clicking any URL in the Media menu copies it to clipboard (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE)
Changes for v1.5.2 - v1.5.3
- [Chooser] Improved destination path selection behavior makes copy and paste easier
- Fixed on the fly download when changing the default download manager not working for single links
- [Media] Fixed flashing icon hidden on some popup windows (thanks nagan for reporting)
Changes for v1.5.1 - v1.5.2
- dfiles.eu (FKA depositfiles.com) support
- Fixed Linux terminal support broken in some distros
- 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
Changes for v1.4.8.5 - v1.4.8.6
- Added recent folders autocompletion support to built-in save path chooser (thanks Scott Merrill for RFE)
- Restored FlareGet support (broken because of Debian packaging case rules)
- Added fname support for links diverted from the "Save as" dialog
Changes for v1.4.8.4 - v1.4.8.5
- Full FlareGet support
- Fixed FlashGot Media still affected by the built-in download manager Unicode bug, preventing it from working on some locales (thanks taglife for report)
Changes for v1.4.8.4 RC 5 - v1.4.8.4
- Fixed About dialog URLs typos and made it close as soon as a link is opened (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE)
- [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)
- [Media] Reduced noise by skipping the unsupported and possibly encrypted mp2ts chunked video format
- Restored built-in download manager compatibility with Nightly by adding private mode support (thanks helpfulboy02 for reporting)
Changes for v1.4.8.2 - v1.4.8.3 RC 1
- Cookie support in FlareGet
- Support for ZigzagDownLoader
- Tentative work-around for bug 795683
Changes for v1.4.8.1 - v1.4.8.2
- Media file name support in FlareGet
- Fixed media icon being shown even if the HTTP response status is error (thanks al_9x for report)
- Fixed mispellings in Chinese localizations (thanks taglife for reporting)
- 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)
- Fixed media icon shown on unrelated windows sometimes (thanks al_9x for reporting)
- Removed some Error Console noise on media detection
Changes for v1.4.8 - v1.4.8.1
- Fixed regression, some downloads failing on progress notifications (thanks Juan Manuel Velazque for reporting)
Changes for v1.4.6 - v1.4.7
- [Media] Added support for recognizing m4v files as mp4 even with incorrect mime type headers (thanks Splash Team for report)
- [Media] Improved file name detection
Changes for v1.4.5 - v1.4.6
- [Media] Fixed moving the FlashGot Media icon in the Customize Toolbars palette didn't cause the icon to permanently stay there
- [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
Changes for v1.4.3 - v1.4.5
- Support for latest DtA development version (thanks d_a for reporting)
- [Media] Fixed detection failing on Firefox 15
- [Media] Better adaptivity of the flashing icon
Changes for v1.4.2 - v1.4.3
- flashgot.gesture.feedback about:config switch
- Fixed issues with gesture activation and feedback (thanks therube for reporting)
- Removed cursor feedback on progress
Changes for v1.4.1 - v1.4.2
- Cursor feedback on middle button + south gesture
- Cursor feedback on download preparation progress
- Better accuracy of middle button + south gesture
- Replaced all new Date().getTime() occurrences with Date.now() to reduce object creations
Changes for v1.4 - v1.4.1
- Compatibility with misconfigured providers serving media with a text/html content type header, such as www.aljazeera.net
- Restored Win2k compatibility
Changes for v1.3.9 - v1.4
- Fixed bugs in HTTP Authorization data handling
- FlashGet 3.7 compatibility
Changes for v1.3.8 - v1.3.9
- [Media] Work-around to download whole Youtube media even when served split in 2MB chunks 2MB chunks
- Increased to 500,000 bytes the minimum size threshold for flv/mp4 triggering FlashGot Media
Changes for v1.3.6 - v1.3.7
- [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)
Changes for v1.3.4 - v1.3.5
- Fixed "FlashGot All" and "FlashGot Selection" broken on latest Nightly
Changes for v1.3.3 - v1.3.4
- Link for single download or number and domains for batches is shown in the folder chooser title
Changes for v1.3.2 - v1.3.3
- v1.3.3
- Fixed new wget server-provided file names handling getting confused sometimes
- v1.3.3rc2
- Replaced every reference to XHR's "on..." event handler properties with their addEventListener() counterpart, to cope with bug 687332 fallouts
- v1.3.3rc1
- Force wget >= 1.13 to honor server-provided file names after redirections, unless the destination directory is $HOME for security reasons (thanks Fernando Cerezal for RFE)
- Updated multiple locales
Changes for v1.3.1 - v1.3.2
- Better FlashGot Media name guessing management with DownThemAll! One Link
- Fixed using the "Clear Log" command disables logging until browser gets restarted
- Fixed "FlashGot Tabs" not working if any non-HTML document is present among tabs (thanks drsood for reporting)
Changes for v1.3.0.6 - v1.3.1
- 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)
- Fixed duplicate entries appearing in the FlashGot Media menu after a download being started from the built-in download manager or DownThemAll!
Changes for v1.3.0.5 - v1.3.0.6
- Fixed FlashGot Media name guessing truncates last character sometimes
- Nightly (9.0a1) compatibility
Changes for v1.3.0.4 - v1.3.0.5
- Better special unicode characters handling in auto- detected filenames (thanks nagan for reporting)
- Fixed download manager window not automatically being shown when using the built-in manager
Changes for v1.3.0.3 - v1.3.0.4
- Restored Firefox 2 compatibility
Changes for v1.3.0.2 - v1.3.0.3
- 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
- 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)
- Fixed FlashGot's gesture toggling zoom on image doucuments (thanks anonymous_user for report)
- [L10N] Updated ca-AD
Changes for v1.3.0.1 - v1.3.0.2
- FlashGot Options command in FlashGot Media menu, jumping directly to the FlashGot Media tab
- Last tab selection persistence in FlashGot Options dialog
- Fixed FlashGot.exe not being updated on upgrades when needed, sometimes
Changes for v1.3 - v1.3.0.1
- Fixed FlashGot Media context menu missing when the addon bar is hidden
Changes for v1.3 RC 2 - v1.3
- Improved styling of the new FlashGot Media toolbar button
Changes for v1.2.9.3 - v1.2.9.4
- [L10n] Updated ru (thanks ?????????????)
- Increased the minimum vertical drag threshold for the mouse-down south gesture to 16 pixels, in order to minimize the chances for accidental triggering
Changes for v1.2.9.2 - v1.2.9.3
- Work-around for a Roboform bug causing new browser windows to be messed when FlashGot is installed
Changes for v1.2.9.1 - v1.2.9.2
- Fixed regression: options dialog not shown first time it's invoked from elsewhere then context menu (thanks Janne Hyvärinen for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.8.4 - v1.2.8.5
- [L10n] Updated Japanaese translation (thanks k2jp)
Changes for v1.2.8.3 - v1.2.8.4
- Fixed regression breaking Alt+Click trigger
Changes for v1.2.8.1 - v1.2.8.2
- Official FatRat support
- Seamonkey 2.1b3 compatibility
- [L10n] Updated locales
Changes for v1.2.8 - v1.2.8.1
- Unicode command line support for custom download managers on Firefox 4 (thanks gfdic for RFE)
- [l10n] New build process and package layout to streamline localization and Babelzilla integration
- [L10n] hu update (thanks Kozák Csaba (WonderCsabo))
Changes for v1.2.7 - v1.2.8
- SongBird 1.10 compatibility bump
- Fixed creating a custom download manager entry changes FlashGot Media's choice (thanks basinilya)
- Fixed removing a custom download manager prevents one with the same name from being created again until the option dialog is closed and reopened
- Fixed removing current FlashGot Media download manager choice does not reset the list
Changes for v1.2.6 - v1.2.7
- [Media] "FlashGot Options|FlashGot Media" panel, to choose a distinct download manager for streaming media capture ("Built-in" recommended for caching and name guessing, set by default on new installs)
Changes for v1.2.5 - v1.2.6
- Estonian (thanks Oliverl) x Localizations cleanup
- Fixed Unix download manager support regression
- Fixed bug in Progressive Downloader execution
- Progressive Downloader final support
- Fixed Unix executable paths not properly escaped
- Fixed downloads failing to start when the document containing the links is gone away
Changes for v1.2.4 - v1.2.5
- Support for alternate URL styles relink.us decoding
- Support for latest DTA trunk builds
- Fixed mispelling in Rapidshare support message
- Version bump for latest Thunderbird trunk compat
Changes for v1.2.3 - v1.2.4
- Filesonic batch download support
- Support for disabling link processors with download manager granularity, through preference like "flashgot.dmsopts.{dm}.redir.{processor}.enabled"
Changes for v1.2.2.1 - v1.2.3
- Updated imagefap.com processor, skipping the invisible "Related galleries" links and leveraging the "one page" view to maximize performances
Changes for v1.2.2 - v1.2.2.1
- [Media] "Clear" menu item to erase the media list of the current window (thanks Azruh for suggestion)
- Dropped Filesonic pre-processing (temporarily?)
Changes for v1.2.1.31 - v1.2.2
- Fixed uploading.com links causing FlashGot All to fail when not logged in as a premium user (thanks white43 for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.1.30 - v1.2.1.31
- Faster startup time
- Restored compatibility with Firefox 4.0b6pre (bug 533038)
Changes for v1.2.1.27 - v1.2.1.30
- filesonic.com batch download support
- [cURL] Resume support (thanks wumpyr for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.1.26 - v1.2.1.27
- Firefox 4 (Gecko 2) XPCOM support
- Work-around for Mozilla's bug 576492
Changes for v1.2.1.23 - v1.2.1.26
- filelocator.com batch download support (thanks DJBB for report and additional help)
- re-links.com and chooselink.com link protection services support
- The tmpDir preference is not persisted anymore if it's equal to sys default, and falls back to sys default when can't be found, making profile-sharing easier (thanks Alfred Aldric for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.1.21 - v1.2.1.23
- Prozilla support on Linux
- Improved queueing of download batches with Linux command line download managers
- Saner terminal spawning on Linux
- hotfile.com batch download support
- Seamonkey version compatibility bump
Changes for v1.2.1.17 - v1.2.1.21
- Fixed FlashGot.exe crash on Windows 7
Changes for v1.2.1.16 - v1.2.1.17
- Fixed media icon tooltip always referring to last seen movie (thanks therube for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.1.14 - v1.2.1.15
- Windows bridge made compatible with Windows' Software Restriction Policy (thanks alexx216)
- Removed Surf Canyon's search refinement
Changes for v1.2.1.13 - v1.2.1.14
- Surf Canyon's search refinement disabled by default
- Fixed an extra space layout issue with certain search engines
Changes for v1.2.1.09 - v1.2.1.10
- Direct download support for photobucket.com images and videos
- Better JDownloader integration on Windows 7
- "package" parameter sent to JDownloader
Changes for v1.2.1.08 - v1.2.1.09
- Direct download support for imagevenue.com
- Direct download support for imagebam.com
- Batch gallery download and direct image download support for imagefap.com support (built-in download manager recommended to preserve file names)
- Improved redirection handling compatibility in Built-in download manager
Changes for v1.2.1.07 - v1.2.1.08
- Better cache management
- Fixed Build Gallery regression (thanks wavingbears for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.1.03 - v1.2.1.04
- "FlashGot Link" contextual command on Thunderbird's header links
Changes for v1.2.0.9 - v1.2.1
- Axel Download Accelerator for Linux support
- Better sniffing of multiple media stream containers
- Better support for Silverlight video streams (thanks Paolo Perri for reporting)
- Support for the sharingmatrix.com service
- Support for gnome-terminal when set as COLORTERM (thanks Mark Dewey for suggestion)
Changes for v1.2.0.8 - v1.2.0.9
- Folx download manager for Mac OS X support
- FlashGot Media better support for Youtube channels (thanks andy_t_roo for suggestion)
- FlashGot Media support for Viddler videos (thanks josephj for RFE)
- Silenced "which" console output during download manager detection (thanks Marco Poletti)
- Fixed Build Gallery's interrelated ranges starting at 1 even though the referenced one starts at 0 (thanks muhv for reporting)
Changes for v1.2.0.7 - v1.2.0.8
- Improved Uget support for single downloads
- Worked around Menu Editor incompatibility (thanks Olo and Peuj for reporting)
- Improved JDownloader integration on Mac OS X
Changes for v1.2.0.6 - v1.2.0.7
- Uget open source download manager support
Changes for v1.2.0.5 - v1.2.0.6
- Fixed potential initialization bug on Mac OS X
Changes for v1.2.0.2 - v1.2.0.4
- FlashGot media intercepting cached content
- FlashGet 3.2 support (as "FlashGet 2.x")
- Increased attempts to contact JDownloader after launching it, should prevent first batch to fail on older systems.
- Use JDownloader.exe when possible on Windows
Changes for v1.2 - v1.2.0.2
- Firefox 3.7 compatibility
Changes for v1.1.9.8 - v1.2
- Digitally signed package
- Added "COMMENT" placeholder support to custom download manager templates (thanks t-bon3 for RFE)
- GPL v2 headers to all the source files x Fixed Megaupload batch downloading failing on some sites (thanks ha1 for reporting)
- Replaced old "GPL with DAP exception" license text with plain original GPL v2
Changes for v1.1.9.7 - v1.1.9.8
- JDownloader support
- Fixed Megaupload processor sending batches multiple times (thanks DarkB for reporting)
Changes for v1.1.9.5 - v1.1.9.6
- Work-around for "missing menu" problem caused by Sothink Web Video Downloader's lame GPL violation
Changes for v1.1.9.3 - v1.1.9.4
- Fixed startup mem leak (thanks loxs for reporting)
Changes for v1.1.8.7 - v1.1.9
- Uploading.com batch download support
- Huge code refactoring for easier extensibility
- Removed bogus "Failed to load XPCOM... .autoreg" message shown in Error Console on startup
- Fixed portable support regression
Changes for v1.1.8.6 - v1.1.8.7
- New "Show release notes on update" checkbox in FlashGot Options|Advanced
- Basic download dialog patching made compatible with Fx 3.5 and above
- Fixed megarotic.com links in a batch prevented it from completing
Changes for v1.1.8.5 - v1.1.8.6
- Fixed broken progress bar and no link sent if a Megaupload link is in the batch and user is not logged in
Changes for v1.1.8.4 - v1.1.8.5
- Protectlinks.com batch download support (thanks bbutton for RFE)
Changes for v1.1.7.9 - v1.1.8
- Improved generic redirector regular expression
- Reduced FlashGot Media log spam
Changes for v1.1.7.8 - v1.1.7.9
- New flashgot.media.redirect.* preferences to control redirection handling in FlashGot Media: 0 - don't follow redirections.1 - report last redirected URL (default). 2 - report both original and last redirection URL flashgot.media.redirect controls the global default, while flashgot.media.redirect.some_site_com controls the behavior on some.site.com.
- Fixed regression from joost.com support: redirected movies reported twice in FlashGot Media (e.g. on Youtube)
- Improved Megaupload support, adapted to new site layout
Changes for v1.1.7.7 - v1.1.7.8
- FlashGot Media compatibility with joost.com and other redirecting movie sites
- f4* Flash video support (thanks mk.2 for request)
Changes for v1.1.7.6 - v1.1.7.7
- Fixed regression: links wrapped around images being ignored by "FlashGot All" (thanks con94122, linus12 and Barvinok for reporting)
Changes for v1.1.7.2 - v1.1.7.6
- Fixed initialization failure on certain profiles (thanks fastleo63 for report)
Changes for v1.1.7.1 - v1.1.7.2
- Better handling of focused node
- Kazakh translation (thanks Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
- Overlay code cleanup
- Updated Ukrainian translation
Changes for v1.1.6 - v1.1.7
- relink.us batch download support
- Download Accelerator Plus 9 compatibility (requires "DAP|Options|Advanced|Integrate into Mozilla/Firefox browser" to be enabled)
- Updated Malaysian
- Updated Hebrew
Changes for v1.1.5 - v1.1.6
- Aria 2 automatic support
- Improved directory choosing workflow
- Updated Arabic translation
- Compatibility with Thunderbird trunk
- Compatibility wiht Seamonkey trunk
- Fixed minor bugs in bash-based automatic detection
Changes for v1.1.4 - v1.1.5
- Yahoo Mail! attachments download support
- Better compatibility of redirector processors with already redirected single-download URLs
Changes for v1.1.3 - v1.1.4
- hidefile.biz batch download support
- FlashGet 2.3 support
- Fixed WellGet regression (thanks inra for patch)
- Fixed bug in file type list UI on Gecko < 1.9 (thanks therube for report)
Changes for v1.1.2 - v1.1.3
- Unicode support for FlashGot Media titles
- Afrikaans translation (thanks Leon Odendaal)
- FlashGet 2.2 support
- Fixed possible infinite recursion in generic redirect processor
- FlashGot Media interception optimizations
Changes for v1.1.1.7 - v1.1.2
- Increased sensitivity for playlist media formats
- Fixed "Do this automatically for file like this from now on" not working (thanks sg2002 for report)
- Better FlashGot Media behavior when document title is missing (thanks therube for report)
Changes for v1.1.1.5 - v1.1.1.6
- Fixed ghost entries in extensions list (thanks dgnet for report)
- FlashGot media status icon can be hidden by toggling the flashgot.media.statusIcon preference to false
Changes for v1.1 - v1.1.1.1
- Fixed last minute regression in "FlashGot All"
- Brief FlashGot Media status icon transparency animation to catch attention on stream interception
- flashgot.dmsopts.dmname.stripHash preference to remove hash from URLs for download managers messing with it (enabled by default for Net Transport 2)
- flashgot.media.guessName preference to control FlashGot Media file name extrapolation
- flashgot.media.forceNameHack preference to control hash-based hack to force extrapolated file name on external download managers
- Better file name extrapolation, cuts off site name components from the title before using it
- Extrapolated file name for FlashGot Media unnamed stream used with built in DM and GetRight
- Hack to force FlashGot Media extrapolated filename with other download managers (tested with Orbit, it does NOT work with FDM, it may work with other DMs)
- FlashGot Media status bar icon appears when captured media content is available: left click downloads all the streams from the page, right click opens a contextual menu to select one
- Restored depositfiles.com support (thanks lianz for reporting)
- Improved FlashGot Media sensitivity
- Added tooltip to FlashGot Media command listing intercepted streams
Changes for v1.0.5 - v1.1
- "FlashGot Media" release
- Locale updates
- Fixed multipart/x-mixed-replace content being caught by "intercept all" (thanks Josephj for report)
- Galician translation (thanks Lois Lamas)
- Fixed DTA integration in "Opening..." dialog
- (Dar)Wine support turned off by default to avoid annoyances on some configurations (e.g. X11 starting on Mac OS X). It can be turned on by setting the flashgot.useWine about:config preference to true
- "FlashGot Media" menu item updated "live" as content starts playing
- Improved "FlashGot Media" compatibility with stream containers
- Fixed "FlashGot Media" issues with frames
- Fixed "FlashGot Media" to work with cached content
- "FlashGot Media" made compatible with SM 1.1.x
- DownloadStudio support
- New "FlashGot Media" command capturing media content currently playing in the browser window (tested on Youtube movies)
- "Browser Built In" download manager label made localizable through flashgot.properties
Changes for v1.0.4.5 - v1.0.5
- Speed Download Lite support
- Moved changelog online to reduce XPI size
- (Dar)Wine support turned off by default to avoid annoyances on some configurations (e.g. X11 starting on Mac OS X). It can be turned on by setting the flashgot.useWine about:config preference to true
- Added option for "Built in" download manager to overwrite files, rather than renaming with numbers
Changes for v1.0.4.4 - v1.0.4.5
- Support for most recent linksbuck.com links
Changes for v1.0.4.3 - v1.0.4.4
- Improved (release-ready) Darwine support
- Fixed option+click over a scrollbar triggering download on Mac OS X
Changes for v1.0.3 - v1.0.4
- iGetter for Windows support on Firefox 3
- "Smart" gFlashGot.download() API (e.g. for mouse gestures) will download either the current selection or the last mousedown link
- Fixed alt+click and alt+shift+click broken on Gecko 1.8.x (Firefox <= 2 and SeaMonkey)
- Improved mouse gesture friendliness (i.e. the link you start a gesture from is recorded as the FlashGot object, unless a textual selection is active)
Changes for v1.0 - v1.0.3
- Throbber Button alt+click compatibility (thanks Steve England)
- Restored POST compatibility with Firefox 2 regressed in 1.0 (thanks Another)
- Fixed "Built In" and DTA download manager support bug, aborting FTP redirections (thanks davitof)
- Fixed GetRight char replacement preference case, now flashgot.GetRight.replaceSpecialChars as documented (thanks Darren Falco)
- SourceForge redirection extended to all the *.sourceforge.net subdomains
- Underscore replacement for special characters in GetRight support can be turned off by setting the flashgot.GetRight.replaceSpecialChars about:config preference to false
- Built-in download manager now unescapes file names
- Updated sr-YU
Changes for v0.9.9 - v1.0
- POST support within the built-in download manager
- Leech support including POST
- ftp2share.net support (10x goridelta for suggestion)
- generic URL-based redirection support (customizable regular expression in flashgot.redir.generic.rx)
- Improved Speed Download 5 support
- Dropped autodetection for older Speed Download versions. It can be manually enabled setting the flashgot.oldSD about:config preference to true
- Faster auto-detection on Mac OS X
Changes for v0.9.8 - v0.9.9
- Experimental wine support (tested with FlashGet and Orbit Downloader on Ubuntu 8.0.4 with Wine 0.9.59)
Changes for v0.9.6 - v0.9.7
- Transparent management of MegaUpload Premium links when MU's "Direct Download" option is not enabled (enabling it is the recommended method, though)
Changes for v0.9.4 - v0.9.5
- Compatibility tweaks for Songbird
- Improved "Built In" support on Toolkit applications
Changes for v0.8.8 - v0.9
- Improved native bridge lifecycle management, with faster startup and more antivirus-friendly behavior
- Enhanced cookie file support
Changes for v0.8.7 - v0.8.8
- Downloader 4 X rudimentary cookie support (notice: it will work only if d4x is not running when you send the download batch, because d4x initializes cookies only once per session)
- Better CFILE (cookie file) support, integrating session cookies and compatible with Firefox 3
Changes for v0.8.1 - v0.8.3
- Fixed GetRight support regression (thanks Lundholm for report)
- shorten.ws batch redirection support
- tubeurl.com batch redirection support
- iGetter 2.6.1 cookie support
- New "flashgot.appleScriptEncoding" property to set AppleScript character set (default UTF-16, required for new iGetter support)
- Fixed cookie glitches with some download managers Performance optimizations for large download batches (over 1000 links)
Changes for v0.8 - v0.8.1
- Fixed POST data extraction bug breaking the download dialog FlashGot option
Changes for v0.7.9.1 - v0.8
- Built in browser download manager support (tested on Firefox and Seamonkey only)
- DTA and Turbo DTA support
- Automatic hiding of native UI elements for download managers whose FlashGot support is currently active
- Fixed Linux built-in download managers not working if autodetection is turned off
Changes for v0.7.8 - v0.7.9
- Compatibility with latest link-protector.com flow
- Support for new stealth.to captcha
- Version bump for Fx 3.0b4pre
- Dropped compatibility with Fx 1.0.x
Changes for v0.7.5 - v0.7.7
- Fixed FlashGet + DownloadHelper incompatibility (thanks Shanker Prasad Perumal for report)
- Fixed "Detect Now" not affecting current session
- Fixed WellGet auto-detection bug
- Fixed IDM "zombification" (thanks Leon Lanford)
Changes for v0.7.4 - v0.7.5
- flashgot.invertAltShiftClick about:config option to swap alt+click and alt+shift+click meanings (thanks JoshOJ for suggestion)
- Updated localizations
Changes for v0.7.1 - v0.7.2
- stealth.to multiple hidden links redirection support
- Recursive use of redirection services optimizations
- Experimental (untested) Songbird compatibility
Changes for v0.7 - v0.7.1
- Fixed Build Gallery XML bug on Fx3 (thanks apolodor)
- Netscape 9.0.0.x compatibility
Changes for v0.6.9.9 - v0.7
- depositfiles.com Gold support
- tinyurl.com batch redirection support
- lix.in link protection service support
- link-protector.com link protection service support
- anonym.to batch redirection support
- flashgot.redir.[service].anonymous preference to strip referrer from download batches including links redirected through a [service] among "link_in", "link_protector_com" or "anonym_to".
Changes for v0.6.9.7 - v0.6.9.9
- Restored Unix-style download managers on Mac OS X
- New Mac OS X support made compatible with temporary directories containing special characters
- Firefox 3 compatibility
- Updated locales
- Fixed regression, Build Gallery broken on referrer-less pages
Changes for v0.6.9.3 - v0.6.9.7
- Improved new Mac OS X support
- Faster startup
- More reliable "detect now" feature
Changes for v0.6.9.1 - v0.6.9.3
- Fixed Build Gallery parameters persistence regression due to automatic native wrappers (thanks DuncanMc)
- Netscape 9.0.* compatibility
Changes for v0.6.9 - v0.6.9.1
- Better ReGet 5.x support
- Build Gallery mp4 support (thanks Ewen)
- Fixed trunk "basic" Unknown Content Type Dialog, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399873
- General compatibility enhancements
Changes for v0.6.8 - v0.6.9
- Retriever automatic detection on Windows (see FAQ for manual cross-platform setup, thanks Hayden Legendre)
- Footprint reduction
- capped links number preference for custom download managers to prevent DOS conditions on batch downloads (flashgot.custom.[Download Manager Name].maxLinks)
Changes for v0.6.7 - v0.6.8
- Fixed progress meter issue with text box selections
Changes for v0.6.5 - v0.6.7
- FlashGot Selection grabs links from text boxes too (thanks qwer1304 for request)
- FlashGot Selection *inside* textarea and text boxes
- Fixed localization-related Seamokey install problem
Changes for v0.6.4 - v0.6.5
- Fixed both single right-clicked link and other links extracted from selection being sent separately by the new direct context menu download manager access: now selected links are sent without redundancies, no matter what's clicked (thanks therube for reporting)
Changes for v0.6.2 - v0.6.4
- [UFILE] line separator set to CRLF on Windows
- Shown in context menu" option for each download manager definition, allowing DownloadWith-style usage patterns (thanks VitaR for request)
Changes for v0.6.1 - v0.6.2
- Fixed missing download managers list in SeaMonkey "Opening..." dialog (10x therube)
Changes for v0.6 - v0.6.1
- Fixed "Open with..." missing regression (10x Totya)
Changes for v0.5.98.070331 - v0.5.99
- Archive password added to download description if detected in "FlashGot Selection" (e.g. Pass: xyz)
- Public Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) support
- Fixed download dialog drop-downs when DTA installed
- Updated Polish (thanks Piecu)
- Updated Chinese Traditional (thanks Greener)
Changes for v 0.5.98.070328 - v0.5.98.070331
- Neater POST interception
- Fixed Downloader 4 X support regression
Changes for v0.5.98.070327 - v 0.5.98.070328
- Expiration time for download cookies set to 1 hour
Changes for v0.5.98.070302 - v0.5.98.070327
- Optimization for grabbing thousands of links at once
- Better custom download manager support (allows Portable wxDownloadFast configuration)
- Support for latest Thunder versions (10x YuanHongYe)
- Fixed "intercept all" downloading RSS feeds
Changes for v0.5.98 - v0.5.98.070302
- Fixed nasty "FlashGot Selection" regression
- Better menu keyboard accelerators (thanks Dennie Kirtley for suggestion)
Changes for v0.5.97.03 - v0.5.98
- BitComet support (thanks to Zhang Ji)
- Minefield (3.0a3) support
- Better duplicate removal on "FlashGot Selection", optimized for those links having an "abbreviated" (and broken) version of their actual URL in their description (often seen in forum posts)
Changes for v0.5.97.02 - v0.5.97.03
- Minefield (3.0a2) support
