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I use FlashGot with IDM (Internet Download Manager) and regularly visit sites that use terrible, semi-random filenames.

Luckily...

1. IDM allows you to define the local filename separately with command line parameter /f.
2. Websites can tell browsers to use a filename different from the one in the URL by using the HTML attribute "download".

So, It would make my life a lot easier if FlashGot passed the filename in a[download] to IDM because then I could write a small Greasemonkey script to give links better filenames. You know, something like

It was already in my TODO list, but thank you for the reminder