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Is the Built-In Browser that Flashgot regers to an integral component of Flashgot?
I used that last night to download something from Megaupload and the speed was much faster than I get using Flashget!

7leagues wrote:Is the Built-In Browser that Flashgot regers to an integral component of Flashgot?
I used that last night to download something from Megaupload and the speed was much faster than I get using Flashget!

Yes, it's the built-in download manager which comes inside Firefox and which can be driven by FlashGot to start multiple downloads at once.
It's usually slower than FlashGet or other external download managers because it spawns just one connection per download, but under some circumstances (e.g. if the web site performs some kind of connection throttling) it can be slightly faster.

Indeed, I just tried it again and this time the best speed I could get was 11 kb/s. Last night I was getting around 820 kb/s. Flashget usually gives me around 700 kb/s depending on the server I'm downing from.

So, if I can't get Flashgot to work with Flashget, would you advise me to continue using Flashget manually or change to a different DL manager?

Try passing the URL and Download path to flashget.exe.
In Flashgot options-> 'general', commandline arguments template field put options:

[URL] c:\downloads

replace 'c:\downloads' with your choice...

Giorgio Maone wrote: By using a Gecko based browser (like Firefox) or, if you are, by not faking your user agent string which tells my web site you're using Internet Explorer 7.

What? If the OP is like me they just want to download stuff. What is all this gibberish? We are not all geeks. That's why we use other peop[le's software.

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Giorgio Maone wrote: By using a Gecko based browser (like Firefox) or, if you are, by not faking your user agent string which tells my web site you're using Internet Explorer 7.

What? If the OP is like me they just want to download stuff. What is all this gibberish? We are not all geeks. That's why we use other peop[le's software.

The user reported not being able to post images. The "user-agent string", in light text at the bottom-right of the post, is visible to every web site that you visit, so that they know what version of the page to send. Pages need to be coded differently for IE than for Firefox (it's MS who doesn't conform to international standards). Those strings are visible to all in this forum, as it saves asking a lot of questions, and alerts other users who perhaps have the same operating system (Mac or Linux-based, for example). This is no privacy loss; every web site you've ever visited sees it.

If you look at the post where the user was unable to post images, the user-agent string was

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

which tells the site, and Giorgio, that the user is using IE7.

This is permissible, certainly, especially if someone is having problems with Firefox. But as an anti-spam measure, apparently Giorgio forbade posting of images from those who are not using a browser that supports Flashgot, as they are more likely to be spammers.

It is possible to manually fake (change) this user-agent, which some do in an attempt to achieve greater anonymity (?), but Giorgio asked that user to please use Firefox when posting images -- or if the user-agent was faked, to reset it to the real one.

Nothing for you to worry about, other than the fact that your own user agent shows as Firefox 10.1, which is two versions out of date. Security flaws have been patched since then, so please upgrade to Firefox 11.0 at your earliest opportunity.
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btw, if you're wondering about the "Mozilla 4.0", that's ancient, from the Mosaic project to develop graphic web browsers back in the 1990s, which became Netscape and IE, IIRC. The telling part is "compatible MSIE 7.0". = Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Look at my user agent. Starts with "Mozilla 5.0", which became the foundation for Mozilla browsers Firefox and Seamonkey; there is *nothing at all* about MS IE, and it ends with "Firefox/3.6.28" (which is still supported for four more weeks.) ... maybe more than you wanted to know, but short version: Don't worry. Just update.