[ext] FlashGot 0.6 - Download Freedom

[robbyx]

I am using flashgot with webdownloader for X.

The board I am using shows the urls and password as:

http://rapidshare.com/....etc1
Password:mud

How do I make flashgot add the password to webdownloader so that I can use it to open the file. I have followed your instructions to do this but it has not worked for me. Where should I see the password?

R

[jarda green]

Giorgio, I tried to use FlashGot with Firefox (last version) and Flashget (last version) for downloading of multiple files stored in Rapid share using my premium account. I tried to use your guidel - point 6.4 but I don´t understand it. I have group of urls like
http://rapidshare.com/files/69431993/_r ... part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/69446921/_r ... part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/69452212/_r ... part03.rar .
I clicked individually on each url , applied Flash Got link . one FashGet table emerged and I pushed OK. The download started, but I received only three 5K files instead of three 100K files. What was wrong, please?

[Giorgio Maone]

@robbyx:
Sorry, the "password memo" feature can't work with any Linux download manager because to date none of them supports a "description" attribute for the link to be downloaded.

@jarda garden:
The links work fine for me (about 96MB for each).
Please double check you're already logged in Rapidshare and you're passing cookies (FlashGot Options|Privacy|Send Cookies must be flagged).
Should that not suffice, please try with Orbit downloader, just in case something bad happened with latest FlashGet versions or your specific FlashGet setup.

[bob99]

Giorgio were you able to confirm the delay problem with Flashgot?

[Giorgio Maone]

@bob99:
no I didn't. That's what I wrote you in my 05 Nov private message which apparently you couldn't read yet (it's still in my Outbox):

Hi Bob,
What did happen on Nov 5, between 00:13 and 00:14?

As you can notice by reading your log, your average FlashGot initialization time suddenly changes from about 1.2 secs to about 5 secs.
I cannot imagine any reason for such a sudden and consistent change other than a software upgrade or some CPU-intensive concurrent task (e.g. a Windows update or a defragmentation process) which may have been started at 00:14

At any rate, my FlashGot startup times (on a 2.6Ghz Intel CPU) are always under 1 sec (with 24 download managers installed and 56 extensions enabled!), which is more or less consistent with your initial (before 00:13) times...

I can only suppose that isolating and removing the "change" factor startup times should drop back to an acceptable amount.

Many thanks for your data

[oldaccountbegone]

Hi Giorgio
Can you make it so that checking flashgot version and opening the flashgot page on startup can behave in a similar way to
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
so that setting
flashgot.version to disable/none can stop opening the flashgot page when starting with a fresh profile?
Thanks

[Giorgio Maone]

@aliumalik:
I'm not sure I understood it right: doesn't the advice given by FAQ 4.4 suffice?

[begogerber]

Dear Giorgio,

I've been trying out FlashGot. Thanks. FlashGot persistently places a folder on my desktop when Firefox loads. The folder is named flashgot.[profile name], has the current date and time, and contains a 2 Kb file entitled FlashGot.exe.test containing the information shown below. When Firefox is not running, the folder seems not to exist. I've tried uninstalling FlashGot, cleaning out whatever I can find and then reinstalling. The folder reappears. Please advise.

Thanks,

Bego

FlashGot.exe.test:

FlashGot Win Bridge 0.5.99

wxDownload Fast|BAD
unexpected unknown error!
WellGet|BAD
unexpected unknown error!
Thunder (Old)|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Thunder|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
TrueDownloader|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Star Downloader|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
ReGet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Orbit|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Net Transport 2|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Net Transport|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
NetAnts|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Mass Downloader|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
LeechGet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
LeechGet 2002|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Internet Download Manager|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Internet Download Accelerator|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
InstantGet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
HiDownload|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
GigaGet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
GetRight|BAD
unexpected unknown error!
FreshDownload|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Free Download Manager|OK
FlashGet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Download Master|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
Download Accelerator Plus|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.
BitComet|BAD
COM error: Incorrect function.

[Giorgio Maone]

@begogerber:
Please open FlashGot Options|Advanced and set your temporary directory to something different than your desktop.

[begogerber]

Ah! So simple! (and so prompt) Thanks,

Bego

[ericjung]

In the Build Gallery using a Javascript function, is there any way to reference variables defined in the web page? The web page contains an array of thousands of URLs that are images. I'm trying to do this:

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function foo() {
var ret = [];
for (i in photos)
  ret[ret.length] = photos[i].url; //photos is defined in kodakgallery.com when viewing an album slideshow
return ret;
}

thanks for any help,
grimholtz

[Giorgio Maone]

@grimholtz:
for security reasons, in the Build Gallery expressions you're not allowed to reference any stuff coming from the web page.
In your specific case, though, you would be better off with a bookmarklet appending those URLs as links on the bottom of the same page, e.g.:

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javascript:(function() { var a; for each(var p in photos) { a = document.body.appendChild( document.createElement("a")); a.href = p.url; a.innerHTML = p.title || "untitled"; } })()


[ericjung]

@grimholtz:
for security reasons, in the Build Gallery expressions you're not allowed to reference any stuff coming from the web page.
In your specific case, though, you would be better off with a bookmarklet appending those URLs as links on the bottom of the same page, e.g.:

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javascript:(function() { var a; for each(var p in photos) { a = document.body.appendChild( document.createElement("a")); a.href = p.url; a.innerHTML = p.title || "untitled"; } })()


Thanks!

[nth10sd]

I'm getting a memory leak using leak-gauge.pl when FlashGot 0.6.9.9 is installed in Fx 3 Beta 1.

/snip
Leaked outer window 19c63480 at address 19c63480.
Leaked inner window 5fcd70 (outer 19c63480) at address 5fcd70.
... with URI "chrome://browser/content/hiddenWindow.xul".
Summary:
Leaked 2 out of 11 DOM Windows
Leaked 0 out of 63 documents
Leaked 0 out of 5 docshells

This happens only when FlashGot is installed, and goes away when it is removed. I don't see this with Adblock Plus or GMarks, for that matter.

For more information about leak-gauge.pl, please see <a href="http://www.squarefree.com/2007/09/20/firefox-memory-usage-and-memory-leak-news/">Jesse's blogpost</a>. Thought I'd bring this to your attention to an otherwise excellent extension.

[Giorgio Maone]

@nth10sd:
thanks for your feedback.
I'm gonna investigate, since I've got no idea of what FlashGot is still doing with the hidden window, but that's not a worrying issue.
The so called "hidden window" has been implemented long time ago in Mozilla to make things work in extreme situations (e.g. on startup and on shutdown) where no regular window is available.
Since it exists for all the application lifetime, "leaking" it (i.e. holding a long-lived reference preventing it from being garbage-collected) is not a real problem: it wouldn't go away anyway until Firefox is closed.
It says "2 out of 11" because each browser window contains two DOMWindow, one for the chrome and one for the content.