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First off, let me say I'm using FlashGot 1.1.9.6 on Linux.

When I use wget as my download manager, the download starts fine, and opens up a terminal that it runs in, but I can't stop the download with ^z(ctrl-z) as I normally would be able to with wget. Is there any way to make the flashgot behave the same way as if I had instead opened up a terminal and typed: ?

and also, what's the actual command that FlashGot's "command line argument template" produces? It certainly doesn't simply open a terminal and run wget [URL] because if it did that then wget would behave correctly. Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated as I have tried everything I could think of, including using bash scripts in FlashGot's "New Custom Download Manager" option.

If there is no way to fix this within flashgot, then does anyone know of a firefox plugin that can feed the url into a script at when you click on a download link?

Thanks in advance.

The built-in wget support uses xterm if found, passing it wget and the command arguments.
In the custom support you can /bin/bash as the executable and any script of yours in the arguments template.

Giorgio Maone wrote:The built-in wget support uses xterm if found, passing it wget and the command arguments.
In the custom support you can /bin/bash as the executable and any script of yours in the arguments template.

I've done that. However, for some reason ctrl-z doesn't work in wget when I start it through Flashgot. Normally ctrl-z will stop the download, but in this instance it does nothing. This is a problem for me because I often have an unstable internet connection which sometimes cuts out. Normally with wget I can just stop and restart the download, but because this doesn't work in flashgot I have to completely abort the download, kill the process, open a new terminal, change directories, and redownload the file with wget using the --continue option. I'm not sure why this doesn't work, but I assume it has something to do with the way flashgot parses the arguments template (or something)?

As it stands now, its much easier to use wget without Flashgot, but I hope I can figure out how to get this to work, because I think it'd be pretty cool to have wget integrated into Firefox.

wget no longer works with flashgot after latest flashgot upgrade

Could you check latest development build ?