June 12th, 2013· 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)
May 14th, 2013· More informative error messages when a downloaded file cannot be written on disk.
· Fixed Youtube multi-format autodetection causing stream prefetching sometimes.
· Improved FlashGot Media file name guessing (thanks nagan for RFE).
· FlashGot Media autodetects and downloads alternate available resolutions and formats for Youtube movies, even when Flash is blocked (e.g. by NoScript).
· Support for the FlashGot All command on XML documents containing URL-like element attributes.
· More compatible and complete generic URL parameter redirector (grabs the "real" final URLs from redirects and trackers).
· Addresses of media content captured by FlashGot Media can be copied to the clipboard by right-clicking their menu entries (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE).
· Improved link chooser dialog's destination path textbox selection behavior, allowing for easier copy & paste.
· On the fly download when changing the default download manager now working for single links too.
· FlashGot Media support for dailymotion.com fragmented video clips.
· Updated dfiles.eu (FKA depositfiles.com) preprocessing for batch direct link premium downloads (similar FlashGot-supported preprocessed file sharing services are fileserve.com, filesonic.com, hotfile.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.com, uploading.com, uploaded.to, ul.to, zshare.com).
· Fixed Linux terminal support broken in some distros.
· Links in the chooser dialog can now be sorted by any attribute.
· Improved link chooser user interface for quick selection.
· Better defaults for automatic link choices and checkbox to always choose all the links by default.
· Added checkbox to control toolbar button visibility in the Media options tab.
· HTML 5 "download" attribute support.
· FlashGot Media toolbar icon placement can be customized also while no media is playing.
· Brand new multiple link selector for download managers which don't provide their own (such as the built-in or JDownloader).
· Restored imagefap.com automatic gallery spidering, which had been broken by site layout changes (thanks nucus for reporting).
· Added recent folders autocompletion support to built-in save path chooser; just focus the text field or type in it to have up to 10 recently used download paths to be looked up (thanks Scott Merrill for RFE)
· Added suggested file name support for links diverted from the "Save as" dialog.
· Full FlareGet support.
· Restored built-in download manager compatibility with Nightly (thanks helpfulboy02 for reporting).
· Added private mode support when calling built-in download manager.
· Enhanced About dialog.
· Better FlashGot Media handling of chunked formats.
· Initial support for ZigzagDownLoader
· Improved support for the FlareGet download manager.
· Further accuracy improvements in the Middle mouse button + drag south 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).
· UA placeholder for user agent string available to custom download manager definitions
· Improved oron.com preprocessing for batch direct link downloads (similar FlashGot-supported preprocessed file sharing services are fileserve.com, filesonic.com, hotfile.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.com, uploading.com, uploaded.to, ul.to, zshare.com).
· 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).
· 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.
May 7th, 2013· [Media] Improved file name guessing (thanks nagan for reporting)
· [Locale] Updated French (thanks Jack Black)
April 10th, 2013· [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)
April 2nd, 2013· [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
March 23rd, 2013· [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
March 7th, 2013· Support for "FlashGot All" on XML documents with URL-like attributes.
February 23rd, 2013· 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)
February 12th, 2013· Better support for per-window Private Browsing
January 29th, 2013· [Media] Right-clicking any URL in the Media menu copies it to clipboard (thanks GµårÐïåñ for RFE)
January 10th, 2013· [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)
December 27th, 2012· 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
December 10th, 2012· [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
· Improved file name support
· [Media] Improved toolbar icon customization persistence
· [Media] Toolbar icon placement can be customized even if no media is playing
· [Chooser] Added persistent option to choose all the items by default
· [Chooser] Improved initial auto-selection
December 3rd, 2012· Brand new multiple links selector dialog shown for download managers (such as the built-in or JDownloader) which don't provide their own
· Fixed media icon disappearing when localstore.rdf gets reset or deleted
· Removed deprecated octal numeric constants usage
· Restored imagefap.com automatic gallery spidering (thanks nuncus for reporting)
November 8th, 2012· 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
October 24th, 2012· 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)
October 15th, 2012· 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)
October 9th, 2012· Cookie support in FlareGet
· Support for ZigzagDownLoader
· Tentative work-around for bug 795683
September 27th, 2012· 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
August 14th, 2012· Fixed regression, some downloads failing on progress notifications (thanks Juan Manuel Velazque for reporting)
July 18th, 2012· [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
June 26th, 2012· [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
May 25th, 2012· 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
May 11th, 2012· Fixed cursor feedback being triggered by middle click scrolling near the bottom border (thanks Infocatcher for report)
April 24th, 2012· flashgot.gesture.feedback about:config switch
· Fixed issues with gesture activation and feedback (thanks therube for reporting)
· Removed cursor feedback on progress
March 20th, 2012· Compatibility with misconfigured providers serving media with a text/html content type header, such as www.aljazeera.net
· Restored Win2k compatibility
March 6th, 2012· Fixed bugs in HTTP Authorization data handling
· FlashGet 3.7 compatibility
February 18th, 2012· [Media] Work-around to download whole Youtube media even when served split in chunks
· Increased to 500,000 bytes the minimum size threshold for flv/mp4 triggering FlashGot Media
February 8th, 2012· [Media] Support for POST media requests
· Updated chooselink.com, re-links.com and linksafe.me redirect support
· Experimental support for arcpass and httpauth JDownloader parameters (not exposed yet by any public JDownloader build)
January 9th, 2012· [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)
December 19th, 2011· [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)
December 2nd, 2011· Fixed "FlashGot All" and "FlashGot Selection" broken on latest Nightly
October 31st, 2011· Link for single download or number and domains for batches is shown in the folder chooser title
October 13th, 2011· Fixed new wget server-provided file names handling getting confused sometimes
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