FlashGot 1.2

FlashGot 1.2 is one of the best Firefox download manager integration which 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"

Are you tired of getting spyware, trojans, viruses and all that bad stuff surfing the web? Well, you need a browser safer than Firefox Get NoScript (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...

Well, you definitely need FlashGot!

Benefits:

• Digitally signed package.
• Improved megaupload.com and relink.us support.
• Batch download support for the ul.to alias of uploaded.to (similar already supported file sharing services are uploaded.to, uploading.com netload.in, megaupload.com, rapidshare.com and depositfiles.com).
• Experimental JDownloader integration (working with latest SVN trunk versions of JDownloader).
• GetRight "Skip confirmation prompts" option (thanks arachnologist for RFE).
• Advanced confirmation popups preferences (see 1.1.9.3 changelog for details).
• Seamonkey 1.x uninstall button and streamlined install process.
• Better compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard's security features.
• Improved integration with portable configurations.
• "Show release notes on update" checkbox in FlashGot Options|Advanced, controls if this page must be shown when you upgrade FlashGot.
• Download dialog in "basic" mode (for executable) made compatible with Firefox 3.5 and above
• Fixed megaupload.com integration bug breaking progress bar if user is not logged in.
• New dedicated forum.
• FNAME file name placeholder for custom download manager arguments templates.
• File name replacement support for downloads coming from FlashGot Media on aria2, cURL and wget.
• Batch download support for protectlinks.com and rapidsafe.net (other already supported link protection services are relink.us, 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).
• Improved automatic redirection handling and FlashGot Media behavior.
• Download Studio support (trial download here).
• 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 enable or disable Wine support by setting the flashgot.useWine about: config preference to true or 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 Link 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)

Major Features:

1. FlashGot Link (contextual menu or Ctrl-F1 or Alt+Click on a link) - downloads through the default download manager the link under the mouse pointer.
2. FlashGot Selection (menu or Ctrl-F2 or Alt+Click with an active selection) - catches links in hilighted text/images, attempting also pure text to anchors conversion, performing some "smart" replacement like turning "hxxp://" into "http://".
3. Many download forums list links to password-protected archives (usually RAR or ZIP), followed by an indication of the password to open them. If you select the links and the password by dragging the text selection with your mouse, and then you use the FlashGot Selection command, the password will be passed to the download manager inside the description of the links, so you can easily retrieve it when the download is completed with no need to annotate it manually.
4. FlashGot All (menu or Ctrl-F3) - grabs all the links found in the current page and dispatches them to the default download manager, which could offer an easy interface* to filter and select the file that will be downloaded in a batch.
5. FlashGot Tabs (menu or Ctrl-F6) - performs a "FlashGot All" on every tab open in the current window. Notice that this command is hidden by default from the context menu: you can show it using the Menu options.
6. FlashGot Media (menu or Ctrl-F7) - it's enabled only when a streaming video or audio clip is playing in the current browser tab: this command intercepts downloadable addresses of the content pieces played so far in the page and sends them to the download manager. Tested on Youtube movies, it should work in many other situations as well. Furthermore, when a video or audio content is intercepted and ready for FlashGot media, a status bar icon flashes as a notification: you can either left click it to download all the streams at once, or right click to choose among multiple streams, if more than one have been found.

 Enhancements:

• 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
• 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