Version history for FlashGot

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Changes from v1.0.5 to 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 from v1.0.4.5 to 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 from v1.0.4.4 to v1.0.4.5

• Support for most recent linksbuck.com links

Changes from v1.0.4.3 to v1.0.4.4

• Improved (release-ready) Darwine support
• Fixed option+click over a scrollbar triggering download on Mac OS X

Changes from v1.0.3 to 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 from v1.0 to 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 from v0.9.9 to 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 from v0.9.8 to v0.9.9

• Experimental wine support (tested with FlashGet and Orbit Downloader on Ubuntu 8.0.4 with Wine 0.9.59)

Changes from v0.9.6 to 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 from v0.9.4 to v0.9.5

• Compatibility tweaks for Songbird
• Improved "Built In" support on Toolkit applications

Changes from v0.8.8 to v0.9

• Improved native bridge lifecycle management, with faster startup and more antivirus-friendly behavior
• Enhanced cookie file support

Changes from v0.8.7 to 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 from v0.8.1 to 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 from v0.8 to v0.8.1

• Fixed POST data extraction bug breaking the download dialog FlashGot option

Changes from v0.7.9.1 to 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 from v0.7.8 to 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 from v0.7.5 to 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 from v0.7.4 to v0.7.5

• flashgot.invertAltShiftClick about:config option to swap alt+click and alt+shift+click meanings (thanks JoshOJ for suggestion)
• Updated localizations

Changes from v0.7.1 to v0.7.2

• stealth.to multiple hidden links redirection support
• Recursive use of redirection services optimizations
• Experimental (untested) Songbird compatibility

Changes from v0.7 to v0.7.1

• Fixed Build Gallery XML bug on Fx3 (thanks apolodor)
• Netscape 9.0.0.x compatibility

Changes from v0.6.9.9 to 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 from v0.6.9.7 to 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 from v0.6.9.3 to v0.6.9.7

• Improved new Mac OS X support
• Faster startup
• More reliable "detect now" feature

Changes from v0.6.9.1 to v0.6.9.3

• Fixed Build Gallery parameters persistence regression due to automatic native wrappers (thanks DuncanMc)
• Netscape 9.0.* compatibility

Changes from v0.6.9 to 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 from v0.6.8 to 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 from v0.6.7 to v0.6.8

• Fixed progress meter issue with text box selections

Changes from v0.6.5 to 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 from v0.6.4 to 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 from v0.6.2 to 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 from v0.6.1 to v0.6.2

• Fixed missing download managers list in SeaMonkey "Opening..." dialog (10x therube)

Changes from v0.6 to v0.6.1

• Fixed "Open with..." missing regression (10x Totya)

Changes from v0.5.98.070331 to 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 from v 0.5.98.070328 to v0.5.98.070331

• Neater POST interception
• Fixed Downloader 4 X support regression

Changes from v0.5.98.070327 to v 0.5.98.070328

• Expiration time for download cookies set to 1 hour

Changes from v0.5.98.070302 to 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 from v0.5.98 to v0.5.98.070302

• Fixed nasty "FlashGot Selection" regression
• Better menu keyboard accelerators (thanks Dennie Kirtley for suggestion)

Changes from v0.5.97.03 to 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 from v0.5.97.02 to v0.5.97.03

• Minefield (3.0a2) support

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