Work in progress

Changes for DownThemAll 1.0.1

(Since 1.0)

Major Bugfixes

  • HTTP/HTTPS/Proxy Authentication didn't work under certain circumstances (#523)
  • Changes from Download Info window were not always saved (#567)
  • Reverting to 0.9.x behavior for network.max.connections manipulation to accommodate users reporting slow-downs (See notes; #613)
  • Incorrectly specifying batches may "hang" dTa and with it the application (#617)
  • Name conflicts didn't remember selection if "for this session only" in conjunction with the "Rename" option was used (#655)

Minor Bugfixes

  • Empty Folderlist-Buttons didn't work (#522)
  • Privacy notice talked about dTa connecting to downthemall.net, which 1.0 doesn't do at all (#524)
  • Multiple documentation fixes/clarifications (#536, #546, et.al.)
  • Fast filtering doesn't take description into account (#557)
  • Using Save Link with DownThemAll! didn't transport the description rendering *text* empty (#508)
  • Fixed pt-PT locale (#566)
  • Firefox 3 Beta5 doesn't support the help viewer anymore, add a workaround (#660)

Minor Enhancements

  • flatsubdirs/flatcurl renaming tags (See notes; #518)
  • Work around Menu Editor problems (Context Menu at least). (See notes; #555)
  • New locales: es-AR, ja-JP, tr-TR

Notes

  • Some users rightfully reported that our privacy notice still talks about dTa connecting to downthemall.net and that this behavior can be disabled from the Preferences, while in fact there is no such preference.

This is merely a documentation error. dTa 1.0 does not connect to downthemall.net anymore.

  • There were multiple reports that the way dTa resets some preferences about connection limitations slows down the whole browsing experience. Furthermore people claimed this didn't happen with 0.9.x. We therefore reverted back to what 0.9.x did with said preferences.

That being said we were not able to reproduce this at all. We however hope this fixes the problems some users say they were experiencing.

  • Various users reported that the behavior for the subdirs/curl renaming tags has changed for them.

This was a change as designed. The reason for it was, that the old behavior wasn't consistent but would perform in two alternating ways depending on where the tag was placed. This is not only irritating but also plain incompatible with 1.0 code.

We however failed to update the documentation and we unfortunately forgot to add the alternative tags we had in mind. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Users might use flatsubdirs and flatcurl tags to get the old behavior (this are not included in the Mask helper popup due to locale constraints, still they are functional).

  • As it stands Menu Editor was/is incompatible with dTa. The developer didn't address this issue yet. We therefore decided to work-around the problems of Menu Editor. The DownThemAll menu entries should be available again from the context menu. The Tools menu entries, however, likely still don't work.
  • We recently observed that the I ♥ Miro extension breaks dTa. Paul Swartz fixed this in version 1.3.7, so we advise to upgrade. We'd like to thank Paul for promptly addressing and solving this issue. If you're a regular amazon shopper and want to support Miro, an open source and therefore free Internet TV player, please consider installing the I ♥ Miro extension yourself.

Fixed bugs

(dynamic list)

#508
AddURL by SaveSingleLink does not transport the description.
#518
Saving with name only (not subdirs) not functioning
#522
Empty Folderlist does not work
#523
Download for http password protected site over https fails.
#524
Privacy statement still informs user about connecting to dta.net
#536
Update renaming mask help.
#546
Include GPL No Warranty section directly within about.html/notice.xul
#547
Release
#548
Update/synch locales
#555
Allow Menu Editor to do (some) of its dirty work.
#556
Credit for SILK icons from FAMFAM
#557
Fast Filtering only sees text within the url column
#566
Download speed doesn't display...
#567
Changes via Download Info are not always saved
#570
Wrong string replacements
#571
Revert de-DE
#572
Revert en-US
#594
Links in About DtA! window are not working
#607
Add more debug output in saveddropdown
#608
makeSelection() might be called early
#609
Fixed help markup errors
#613
Multiple "slow-down" reports.
#614
Compile Changelog for 1.0.1
#617
Change in range character causes hangs if experienced user forgets
#623
Sliced download window with dTa 1.1a1 and Firefox 3b5
#655
"If filename already exist" feature does not recognize "For this session only" option
#660
Intermediate solution for Help Viewer removal
#663
title/alt not correctly added to description