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Every single time I start Firefox Flashgot is going out to the last link I downloaded from and it is downloading the images from there. EVERY SINGLE TIME! I went through all the options I saw for Flashgot and nothing worked. I ended up disabling it and it still continued to do it. I then REMOVED Flashgot from Firefox and IT IS STILL DOING IT!!!!! How do I get Flashgot to stop downloading every time I launch Firefox especially since I have removed Flashgot?!?

> I then REMOVED Flashgot

Then it is not FlashGot doing it.

What other Extensions / Plugins do you have?

It has to be Flashgot (somehow). It's downloading the exact same files, in the exact same way, to the exact same folder Flashgot was using (it was one I created specifically for Flashgot).

The only other add-ons I have enabled (all installed long before I installed Flashgot) are:

Adblock Plus
DivX Plus Web Player
ImageHost Grabber
Norton Vulberability Protection
New Tab Homepage
Greasemonkey

The only plug-ins active are the standard ones (Adobe, Java, Microsoft, etc).

Does the file flashgot.exe exist in your Profile folder?

What files are being downloaded?

What happens if you disable all your other extensions?
What happens if you also disable your plugins (if need be)?

Actually, yes, flashgot.exe is still in my profile folder even though I removed the extension from the Firefox extension page. What is the best way to remove this for good?

lordvaderiii wrote:Actually, yes, flashgot.exe is still in my profile folder even though I removed the extension from the Firefox extension page. What is the best way to remove this for good?

If FlashGot is not shown in the Add-ons manager as enabled, the FlashGot.exe file there can't do any harm (it just doesn't get removed by Firefox when you uninstall FlashGot because usually add-ons have no binary executable attached).
So yes, it's something else. To remove this for good you just need to delete the file manually, but again it's not doing any harm.

lordvaderiii wrote:It has to be Flashgot (somehow). It's downloading the exact same files, in the exact same way, to the exact same folder Flashgot was using (it was one I created specifically for Flashgot). [...]

For what I can tell, Flashgot cannot download anything on its own, it just delegates an external downloader of your choice, so what's doing your download manager? For what you wrote, I guess you're using your browser's internal one, right? What's the state of those downloads? Any pending/failed one? And what are your browser settings on startup? Do you reopen last session by default? If so, this could be the cause: I'm experiencing something similar by recalling last session by hand, regardless of my active extensions, that is, I see an animation as when a download is complete, and find an old failed download listed in. Thus, apparently FireFox traces any pending download it was dealing with internally as part of a certain browsing session.

If that's not your case, perhaps was you creating a gallery with those images? If so, I'd investigate a possible, yet strange, conflict between FlashGot and ImageHost Grabber that could have messed up things, eventually, with preferences and settings, triggering some kind of fallback in the latter - its described as implementing failure recovery and session handling features.

Anyway, if your problem isn't solved yet, you should try and disable each extension one by one, and review your startup settings.

Regards.