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FlashGot
ist ne Extension speziell fuer den Downloadmanager FlashGet
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FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox extension, meant exploit the popular FlashGet download manager.

Since I switched from MS Internet Explorer to a serious browser, I've had only one regret: I've been missing the ability to handle "massive downloads" through a multithreaded, file splitting download manager like FlashGet.

In IE there was a nice "Download all with FlashGet" menu item, which delivered every link on a web page to the download manager, ready to be choosen and downloaded in batch.

The nearest thing to this feature I could find should be the combination of two other Mozilla extensions: namely Down Them All and DownloadWith. Sadly, the former catches links in web pages and lets the user select the ones to be downloaded but handles them to the internal Mozilla download manager . The latter lets me choose the external download manager to use, but only one file at a time and without referrer URL handling (.

So I decided to build my solution with my own hands... and it works pretty well (at least for me).

Since FlashGet is a Windows native program, this extensions is obviously not cross-platform. However, I'm planning to write a good download manager in Java, and of course it will work with the Mozilla family.