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DownThemAll! Changelog

What's new in DownThemAll! 3.0.8

Sep 30, 2016
  • Automatically correct incorrect file permission preferences which might have been left over from DTA-2
  • Adjust filter wildcard support to be more like fnmatch (file name matching)
  • Make fast-filtering always work correctly against URLs and descriptions
  • Fix a regression introduced in 3.0.7 where high-speed downloads to slow disks may fail
  • Adjust for changes regarding CPOW use in Firefox Beta and later.
  • Fix an issue where DownThemAll! removing (merging) failed chunks might cause errors
  • Minor adjustments

New in DownThemAll! 3.0.7 (Sep 24, 2016)

  • Major new features:
  • Firefox e10s (multi-process) compatibility
  • Asynchronous Input/Output (mostly)
  • Custom file names and file renaming during and after downloads
  • Advanced queue searching/filtering/sorting, incl by size, status, name, etc.
  • Metalink4 (RFC) support incl http headers
  • Finer grained queue management functions
  • HiDPI (Retina) icons
  • Improved user interface incl full Australis support
  • Some new customizable preferences
  • Better support for third-party tools such as AntiContainer
  • Many tiny improvements and refinements
  • Some speed improvements
  • Better handling of “aggressively” configured cloudflared servers
  • Restartless add-on and corresponding new code architecture
  • Some new very advanced power user preferences, e.g. DTA only proxy (available via about:config only)
  • Changed from 3.0.6:
  • Added now finished it (Italian) locale and update other locales as available
  • Fixed a bug in the preallocator preventing resuming multi-segment downloads with multiple segments
  • Rewrote code that writes data to disk to prevent out of memory issues for very high speed downloads
  • Improved display with certain third-party dark Firefox themes
  • Improved platform-specific shortcuts
  • Better handling of “cloudflared” domains (and a new hidden preference)
  • DownThemAll! works on Seamonkey again
  • Minor adjustments

New in DownThemAll! 3.0.6 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Added now finished es-ES, fr, zh-TW locales
  • Fixed a bug where on certain, few websites DownThemAll! would not found any links although it should have
  • Fixed a bug where the DownThemAll! integration would not show up in the SaveAs window, usually the first time it got shown.
  • Fixed the *flatsubdirs* mask add a "-" in the beginning (Windows only)
  • Fixed an issue where for some users the automatic-renaming on naming conflicts did not always work
  • Save Form works again
  • Firefox 50 and later: If there are unresumable downloads while there is also a DTA update, DTA will tell Firefox to postpone the update via their new mechanism.

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.18 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • Compatibility with Firefox 36

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 6 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • MAJOR FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Restartless add-on
  • New appearance
  • Completely modernize the code to support and use the latest mozilla features
  • Finer grained per-domain limits
  • Queue filters and search functionality
  • Various memory usage and load time improvements
  • Mostly asynchronous disk I/O to keep the application windows responsive and snappy
  • Per-window Private Browsing mode support
  • Lightweight-theme support in the manager window (Firefox on Windows Vista/7 only)
  • Full Firefox Aurora support
  • Preliminary e10s (multi process) support. Only multi-process tabs, DownThemAll! will still run in the main process.
  • Countless small features, improvements and fixes
  • Better platform support:
  • Platform-specific theme fixes
  • Per-platform optimized file I/O
  • Improved platform integration
  • First round of HiDPI (Retina) compatibility. Please note that not all icons have been updated yet
  • MAJOR CHANGES AND KNOWN ISSUES:
  • “Legacy” Private Browsing Mode support dropped in favor of Per Window Private Browsing Mode, which will be available from Firefox 20 onwards
  • Naming/Renaming individual files directly (without messing with the renaming mask).
  • Slightly changed how filters behave: Whenever a non-regexp filter contains wild-cards, it will match according to an algorithm similar to fnmatch, i.e. the whole URI must match, not just part of it. E.g. “*.jpg” was matching both “somefile.jpg”, “this.jpg.is.a.picture.png”, but will now only match “somefile.jpg”.
  • The internal APIs have changed. Third party Add-ons interacting with DownThemAll!, such as FlashGot, might not be (fully) compatible yet.
  • Diagnostic Logging consumes a lot more resources now, to support better logs. Unless you’re planning to submit bug reports, please make sure you have Diagnostic Logging disabled.
  • Some preferences have had their descriptive texts and/or location in the Preferences window change. This does not mean these preferences have been removed.
  • Some features are still brand new, such as HiDPI support, e10s support and Per-window Private Browsing support. As such these features have not been thoroughly tested.
  • Translations are not complete at this point.
  • Old Firefox versions, such as Firefox 3.6 and ESR are NOT supported. Forcefully installing the add-on will NOT work, because of missing features in these ancient Firefox versions.
  • Pale Moon is not supported because it is still using an old version code base.
  • The Fast Filtering feature will now test expressions in one go, instead of matching the URL and description separately.
  • CHANGES SINCE LAST BETA:
  • Various compatibility fixes for Firefox Nightly and/or Aurora
  • Scheduler fixed
  • fnmatch like filters
  • Some performance improvements
  • Various minor fixes
  • Various other improvements

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.17 (May 1, 2014)

  • Bug fixes and changes:
  • Fixed some compatibility issues with the new Australis theme and customization
  • Fixed some minor issues
  • Updated locales

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 5 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • Various compatibility fixes for Firefox Nightly and/or Aurora
  • Some performance improvements
  • Fixed a nasty memory leak (DTA 2 not affected)
  • Added a way to explicitly specify file names for single downloads and later on rename files by hand.
  • Various minor fixes
  • Various other improvements
  • Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.16 (Mar 27, 2013)

  • DownloadHelper: Fixed issue with names containing slashes
  • Fixed compatibility with latest Firefox Aurora/Nightly
  • Updated locales
  • Minor bugfixes

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 4 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • Various compatibility fixes for Firefox Nightly and/or Aurora
  • Updated some locales
  • Some performance improvements
  • Various minor fixes
  • Various other improvements
  • Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 3 (Feb 23, 2013)

  • Fixed: Save Image with OneClick didn’t work
  • Fixed: Updating DTA may cause some other toolbar icons from other restartless add-ons to disappear until browser restart (e.g. the Adblock Plus icon)
  • Vastly improved Download Search/Column Filter performance
  • Improved performance opening and closing the DTA window
  • Various other improvements
  • Some other minor bugfixes and improvements
  • Experimental: Support for incomplete locales. Partial translations for a lot of languages already shipped. We’ll later decide on what percentage of translations must be available in order to ship a locale. Right now, just English, German and Russian are mostly complete.

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 2 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Major changes and known issues:
  • “Legacy” Private Browsing Mode support dropped in favor of Per Window Private Browsing Mode, which will be available from Firefox 20 onwards
  • The internal APIs have changed. Third party Add-ons interacting with DownThemAll!, such as FlashGot, might not be (fully) compatible yet.
  • Diagnostic Logging consumes a lot more resources now, to support better logs. Unless you’re planning to submit bug reports, please make sure you have Diagnostic Logging disabled.
  • The add-on may not update itself properly on file systems with automatic file locking, if the add-on is updated multiple times during a single browser session. This affects Windows users in particular. You should be able to update the add-on after a browser restart. I fixed this issue in the Firefox code, but it won’t be available before Firefox 19.
  • Some preferences have had their descriptive texts and/or location in the Preferences window change. This does not mean these preferences have been removed.
  • Some features are still brand new, such as HiDPI support and Per-window Private Browsing support. As such these fatures have not been thoroughly tested.
  • Beta1 just includes English language. Translations are not available at this point.
  • Old Firefox versions, such as Firefox 3.6 and 10 ESR are NOT supported. Forcefully installing the add-on will NOT work, because of missing features in these ancient Firefox versions. Firefox 17 ESR is not supported as well, but DownThemAll! might work with it, with some limitations. However getting DownThemAll! to work in 17 ESR is not supported and as such will not be documented. ESR users should keep using DownThemAll! 2.0.
  • Changes since last Beta:
  • Added Firefox button sub-menu
  • Fixed: Set Time pref not working
  • Fixed: OneClick Selector not properly working
  • Fixed: Per-Server limits do not always display in the pref window (but still work)
  • Add Paused! action will now ask if it should be remembered
  • Refine some user interface texts
  • Fixed: Unsteady labels/fields in “Download Information”
  • Add more renaming tag variations for referrer URL

New in DownThemAll! 3.0 Beta 1 (Jan 27, 2013)

  • Major features and improvements:
  • Restartless add-on
  • New appearance
  • Completely modernize the code to support and use the latest mozilla features
  • Finer grained per-domain limits
  • Queue filters and search functionality
  • Various memory usage and load time improvements
  • Mostly asynchronous disk I/O to keep the application windows responsive and snappy
  • Per-window Private Browsing mode support
  • Lightweight-theme support in the manager window (Firefox on Windows Vista/7 only)
  • Countless small features, improvements and fixes
  • Better platform support:
  • Platform-specific theme fixes
  • Per-platform optimized file I/O
  • Improved platform integration
  • First round of HiDPI (Retina) compatibility. Please note that not all icons have been updated yet
  • Major changes and known issues:
  • “Legacy” Private Browsing Mode support dropped in favor of Per Window Private Browsing Mode, which will be available from Firefox 20 onwards
  • The internal APIs have changed. Third party Add-ons interacting with DownThemAll!, such as FlashGot, might not be (fully) compatible yet.
  • Diagnostic Logging consumes a lot more resources now, to support better logs. Unless you’re planning to submit bug reports, please make sure you have Diagnostic Logging disabled.
  • The add-on may not update itself properly on file systems with automatic file locking, if the add-on is updated multiple times during a single browser session. This affects in Windows users in particular. You should be able to update the add-on after a browser restart. I fixed this issue in the Firefox code, but it won’t be available before Firefox 19.
  • Some preferences have had their descriptive texts and/or location in the Preferences window change. This does not mean these preferences have been removed.
  • Some features are still brand new, such as HiDPI support and Per-window Private Browsing support. As such these fatures have not been thoroughly tested.
  • Beta1 just includes English language. Translations are not available at this point.
  • Old Firefox versions, such as Firefox 3.6 and 10 ESR are NOT supported. Forcefully installing the add-on will NOT work, because of missing features in these ancient Firefox versions. Firefox 17 ESR is not supported as well, but DownThemAll! might work with it, with some limitations. However getting DownThemAll! to work in 17 ESR is not supported and as such will not be documented.

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.15 (Sep 4, 2012)

  • Fix drag and drop handling

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.14 (Sep 1, 2012)

  • Windows/Mac toolbar icons display updated
  • Fixed some compatibility issues
  • Fix some minor download issues
  • Updated translation

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.13 (Feb 11, 2012)

  • Work-around/fix a problem where DTA prevented the Evernote add-on from working correctly.
  • Fix some minor translation issues
  • Added sk-SK translation

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.12 (Jan 28, 2012)

  • Fix broken with post-replay (not working when video sniffing is not activated)
  • Fix various issues with post replay
  • Revamp Metalink parsing

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.11 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • Fix broken with post-replay (regressed in 2.0.9)
  • Fix overzealous download error recovery
  • Fix some misc. minor issues

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.10 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Marked compatible with Firefox 11.*
  • Marked compatible with Seamonkex 2.7.*
  • Fix: Filesonic premium and other downloads via the Save-As window were not working correctly
  • Fix: FTP resuming regression
  • Updated locales
  • 2.0.10: Fixed a regression from 2.0.9

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.8 (Oct 17, 2011)

  • Marked compatible with Firefox 8.*
  • Fix: Compatibility issues with Firefox 8 Beta

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.7 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Marked compatible with Firefox 6.*
  • Fix: potential and verified (minor) memory leaks
  • Updated he locale

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.6 (Jun 9, 2011)

  • Marked compatible with 5.*
  • Fix: Per-server connection limits were ignored
  • Fix: Resume button sometimes was incorrectly disabled when selecting multiple downloads at once

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.5 (May 23, 2011)

  • Fix: Already started downloads won't load after a browser restart during the download (downloads that were queued but not started were not affected)

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.3 (May 17, 2011)

  • Workaround for Filesonic premium downloads
  • High memory issue on Firefox 4 in particular
  • Small performance improvements
  • New locales

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.2 (Mar 12, 2011)

  • DownThemAll! failed to replay POST requests
  • OSX: Import/Export didn’t work correctly; the input/output file type wasn’t recognized
  • Firefox4/Windows: The pre-allocator might not have worked correctly for certain storage devices
  • Firefox4/Linux and OSX: The pre-allocator failed to always work
  • Added gl-ES and ro localizations
  • Minor improvements and fixes

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.10 (May 29, 2010)

  • Dropdown menus not always saved (#1516)
  • Updated locales

New in DownThemAll! 2.0.1 Beta 1 (Apr 20, 2010)

  • Speed limits – Allow to define maximum download speeds:
  • Global preference
  • Per Server
  • Per Download
  • Per Server download limits
  • Mirror Management – Add/Remove/Edit download locations (mirrors)
  • Firefox Private Browsing Mode support
  • Parsing of text-only links
  • and integration
  • Media-Sniffing: When enabled flv and and other videos will be recognized
  • DownThemAll! Selector – Select links and images by clicking
  • Fine grained queue control: Remove/Remove complete by filters
  • Metalink 4 (IETF) support
  • Support for partial checksums and recovery from Metalinks
  • Manager toolbar now has two modes: Icons, Icons and text
  • Video DownloadHelper integration (in cooperation with mig, the VDH author)
  • Lots of small features
  • Notable changes
  • Weighted average download speed calculation: The more recently calculated speed statistics count more towards the “average” speed.
  • Better context menu integration, showing all available options (link, image, video, audio)
  • Fully multi-threaded pre-allocator and file verification, less hangs with large files
  • More modularization and a lot of refactoring to simplify code and improve load times
  • Other performance-related changes
  • Visual refresh
  • Lots of small improvements

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.9 (Mar 27, 2010)

  • Preallocator might not kick in when resuming
  • Fixes for dark themes
  • Notice window might cause Firefox 3.6 to hang in certain circumstances
  • Minor bugfixes.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.8 (Jan 12, 2010)

  • Changes:
  • Updated locales
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug when resuming a download redirected from http to ftp.
  • Fixed issues with Privacy Controls integration
  • Minor bugfixes

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.7 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • Updates locales; new locales gl-ES, tr-TR

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.6 (Sep 17, 2009)

  • The new preallocator code introduced in the last release 1.1.5 contains a bug where temporary files will be recreated if an previously completed download is gone but still in the list when the manager is reopened. Only large files were recreated.
  • Version 1.1.6 fixes this.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.5 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • Major changes:
  • Using another pre-allocator, not locking the User Interface that much when allocating a large download (no Mac)
  • Starting download/downloads with an unknown file size will no longer use an animated progress bar, as the APNG wasted lots of CPU apparently.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Integration with the Clear private data feature in FX3.5
  • "Load last few kilobytes first" setting couldn't be changed

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.4 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Integration in Save-As window overlapped in FX3.5.
  • Columns not remembered in the selection window.
  • Languages:
  • Languages updated.
  • Especially Vietnamese.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.3 (May 9, 2009)

  • Improved Tooltip graphs' precision.
  • Welsh (cy-GB) localization.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.2 (Mar 24, 2009)

  • ContentHandling breaks when uploadStream is multiplexed.
  • Graphic issues on SongBird.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.1 (Mar 17, 2009)

  • New locales:
  • Catalan.
  • Czech.
  • Danish.
  • Japanese.
  • Korean.
  • Portoguese (Brazilian).
  • Serbian (Cyrillic).
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Restored drag and drop to dTa! OneClick.
  • dTa! doesn't lock Firefox anymore on Ubuntu x64.
  • Fixed Save-Form-Target troubles
  • "restore default settings" button works again.

New in DownThemAll! 1.1.0 (Jan 3, 2009)

  • FTP resuming support.
  • Drag’n'Drop reordering.
  • Auto-Retrying of failed downloads.
  • Natural sorting in Selection dialog.
  • Import download list (metalink, text).
  • Export download list (metalink, html, text).
  • Description is editable (from Add URL/Download Info).
  • Allow tget some post data via form and channel sniffing.
  • Clean up/Remove gone files from list.
  • Allow tload the last few bytes of a file first.
  • Allow tspecify file/directory permissions on Linux/Unix/MacOSX.
  • Metalink server negotiation.
  • Mozilla 1.9 or later only (Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3 and son).
  • Close source tab removed because it was unreliable (and nobody found the time trewrite it properly).
  • More clean init/load and close/shutdown sequences.
  • Indicate and handle offline mode.
  • Simplify/Unify filters: Remove regex/text distinction.
  • *flattext* renaming mask.
  • Songbird 1.0 support.
  • Simplify/Refactor components and modules.
  • Links/Opening tabs now working better for all supported applications.
  • Running/Queued items will be saved as such and continue downloading once you open the manager again.
  • Support minimizing ttray (requires a third party extension).
  • The in-product help got removed because the mozilla platform doesn’t support the help viewer anymore.
  • Slightly revamped skin/theme.

New in DownThemAll! 1.0.4 (Dec 10, 2008)

  • Major bugfixes
  • Firefox 3 crashes when changing rename mask (#775)
  • Preferences Filters doesn’t update (#822)
  • Download may fails when size is unknown (#826)
  • Minor Bugfixes/Minor Enhancements
  • Updated bg-BG and zh-CN

New in DownThemAll! 1.0.3 (Jun 9, 2008)

  • Fixing the extension identification.

New in DownThemAll! 1.0.1 (Apr 30, 2008)

  • HTTP/HTTPS/Proxy Authentication didn�t work under certain circumstances
  • Changes from Download Info window were not always saved
  • Reverting to 0.9.x behavior for network.max.connections manipulation to accommodate users reporting slow-downs
  • Incorrectly specifying batches may �hang� dTa and with it the application
  • Name conflicts didn�t remember selection if �for this session only� in conjunction with the �Rename� option was used

New in DownThemAll! 1.0.1 (Apr 16, 2008)

  • HTTP/HTTPS/Proxy Authentication didn�t work under certain circumstances
  • Changes from Download Info window were not always saved
  • Reverting to 0.9.x behavior for network.max.connections manipulation to accommodate users reporting slow-downs
  • Incorrectly specifying batches may �hang� dTa and with it the application
  • Name conflicts didn�t remember selection if �for this session only� in conjunction with the �Rename� option was used
  • Empty Folderlist-Buttons didn�t work
  • Privacy notice talked about dTa connecting to downthemall.net, which 1.0 doesn�t do at all
  • Multiple documentation fixes/clarifications
  • Fast filtering doesn�t take description into account
  • Using Save Link with DownThemAll! didn�t transport the description rendering *text* empty
  • Fixed pt-PT locale
  • Firefox 3 Beta5 doesn�t support the help viewer anymore, add a workaround
  • flatsubdirs/flatcurl renaming tags
  • Work around Menu Editor problems (Context Menu at least).
  • New locales: es-AR, ja-JP, tr-TR

New in DownThemAll! 1.0 (Feb 29, 2008)

  • Basic metalink support incl. download selection and whole file verification
  • Deleting downloaded files from context menu
  • Save As window got folder-picker (OneClick)
  • Filter for �Software�
  • Various �helpers� in the context menus
  • Selection window allows topen selected link(s) in new tab(s)
  • Query String (*qstring*) renaming mask
  • Checksum support (md5, sha1, sha256, �)
  • Link Fingerprint support
  • A lot of major and minor bugs fixed
  • Upgrades from 0.9: Remaining downloads in queue will not be migrated; finish these downloads prior tinstalling this release.
  • Upgrades from 0.9: Most preferences will be migrated; but please verify everything was migrated correctly.

New in DownThemAll! 0.9.9.10 (Feb 25, 2008)

  • #156, #157 troubles with Slovenian localization
  • #163 PayPal button doesn't work