FlashGot For Mozilla/Firefox 1.0.4.4 is a Download Manager product from flashgot.net, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird extension, meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers. FlashGot is a Mozilla extension that handles downloads with download managers.(FlashGet, Free Download Manager, Fresh Download, GetRight, HiDownload, InstantGet, Internet Download Accelerator, LeechGet, Mass Downloader, Net Transport, NetAnts, ReGet, Star Downloader, Thunder (Chinese only popular product), TrueDownloader and Ukrainian Download Master [Russian language only] ), WellGet)
Main good news are:
* Full support for the Leech Mac OS X download manager.
Generic redirection rule working with almost every plain URL-based redirection service and customizable by editing the regular expression in the flashgot.redir.generic.rx about:config preference.
* Improved complex redirection engine, including batch support for ftp2share.net, rapidbolt.com, linkbank.eu, linkbucks.com and rsprotect.com.
Windows visual download managers are now fully supported on Linux through Wine (tested with FlashGet and Orbit Downloader on Ubuntu 8.0.4). You can disable Wine support setting the flashgot.useWine about:config preference to false.
* Windows native bridge is digitally signed and includes several security enhancement (ASLR, DEP, SafeSEH and many more).
SourceForge-hosted downloads are always properly redirected.
* Improved support for browser built-in download manager.
Batch download support for many anonymize/redirection services (anonym.to, tinyurl.com, moourl.com, anonymz.com, shorten.ws, tubeurl.com)
* Batch download support for megaupload.com, rapidshare.com and depositfiles.com registered accounts.
Batch download support for link protection services such as link-protector.com, stealth.to and lix.in.
* Improved startup performance and native bridge lifecycle management.
Improved cookie file support.
* Better ReGet support when native Firefox plugin is installed and enabled.
Main Functions:
FlashGot's main commands are:
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.
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 "".
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.
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.
* built-in filter dialog is provided by every Windows/Mac OS X download manager except GetRight and cURL. On Linux, your best open source native option is Downloader 4 X 2.5.4 or above. Alternatively you can try one one of the Windows-only download managers which are supported through Wine by FlashGot version 0.9.9 or above.
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.
Another way to activate the aforementioned "FlashGot All" and "FlashGot Selection" commands with a single click is using the FlashGot toolbar button.
You can put this button in place simply right clicking on the toolbar of your choice and selecting the "Customize..." menu item.
The FlashGot toolbar button provides also a drop-down menu that you can use to change default download manager and trigger suitable download operation (depending on context) with a single gesture.
FlashGot also overlays the "Opening file" Firefox dialog, giving you a chance to override the default download manager just before it starts. If you want the current kind of file to be always handled by FlashGot (bypassing this dialog in the future), just click the "Do this automatically for file like this from now on" checkbox shown on the dialog bottom. You can modify this behaviour using the FlashGot Options|Downloads panel.
Notice that FlashGot correctly dispatches the referrer URL detected by Firefox to the external download manager, as needed for many paranoid sites.
Current session cookie from Firefox is also preserved to avoid problems with sites that require persistent login tracking.
If you want, you can disable one of this features (Referrer & Cookie) or both using FlashGot Options|Privacy panel
Another FlashGot feature that is worth to check out is Build Gallery.
Currently supported platforms and products are:
* Windows
* BitComet
* Download Accelerator Plus
* FlashGet
* Free Download Manager
* Fresh Download
* GetRight
* GigaGet
* HiDownload
* iGetter
* InstantGet
* Internet Download Accelerator
* Internet Download Manager
* LeechGet 2002
* LeechGet 2004
* LeechGet 2005
* Mass Downloader
* Net Transport
* NetXfer (Net Transport 2)
* NetAnts
* Orbit
* ReGet Deluxe
* ReGet Junior
* ReGet Pro
* Retriever*
* Star Downloader
* Thunder (Chinese language only)
* TrueDownloader
* Ukraininan Download Master (Russian language only)
* WellGet
* wxDownload Fast
* Linux*
* Aria
* cURL
* Downloader 4 X
* GNOME Gwget
* KDE KGet
* wxDownload Fast
* Since FlashGot version 0.9.9, many of the Windows-only products are supported as well on Linux through Wine.
* Mac OS X
* iGetter
* Leech
* Speed Download
* wxDownload Fast (no binary package, source code only) The license of this internet software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Internet software.