Leech 1.1.3 is a mere bug fix release: Firstly, it fixes a Firefox integration bug that kept temporary download files from getting moved to their final location under certain conditions. And secondly, it removes stray temporary download files that remained visible after handing Camino downloads off to Leech.

On a side note, we have several other smallish updates coming up in the next few days, including one that solves a yFlicks/QuickTime 7.5 issue a lot of users have run into during the past few days. Thanks for your patience.

Yesterday, we were alerted to a web site that made us feel flattered: See, we have been using a black-and-white version of Leech‘s icon as a generic icon for all downloads on our site for a while. In fact, we started doing that even before Leech was released.

It turns out there are other developers who want to help establish Leech as a synonym for downloading: GafMedia, developers of LinkLite, didn’t really ask us for permission before using our icon for their download link and copying our general download box layout, but nevertheless, we do like it.

So if you’re a Mac developer looking for a download icon, feel free to use ours. For additional bonus points, tell your users they should use Leech for downloading. And we’d prefer it if you could keep the green highlight color, instead of changing it to a graphite-y one like GafMedia did.

Here’s a screenshot — just in case GafMedia goes offline some day. Now if only we knew why that LinkLite page’s HTML source includes Coda‘s download dialog.

Update: GafMedia has since replaced the download icon on LinkLite’s product page and — most importantly — apologized for using Leech’s icon without asking for permission first. We appreciate that. Regardless, we’re still willing to let others use that icon. We’d just like to be notified first.

Fulfilling two more major user requests, Leech 1.1.2 adds Firefox integration and Growl support.

Firefox integration is based on Giorgio Maone’s excellent FlashGot Firefox/download manager hub. FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive (“all” and “selection”) downloads with several external download managers. A version that supports Leech will be released as early as today. And once you have installed both Leech 1.1.2 and that new FlashGot version, you’ll be able to choose Leech as your Firefox download manager from FlashGot’s preferences.

As far as Growl support ist concerned, Growl will notice Leech when you launch Leech 1.1.2 for the first time. And once Leech has appeared in Growl’s preferences pane, you can configure it just like any other Growl-enabled application.

And by the way: Both FlashGot and Growl are donationware projects. If you use them regularly, please consider supporting ongoing development with your donation.

Here’s another minor Leech update, which fulfills three more user requests — namely host-specific limiting of concurrent downloads; automatic clearing of the history when Leech quits; and private downloading, which means anonymized download names in Leech’s main window and omitting downloads from the history.

And today is the perfect day to give Leech a try, by the way, because it’s macZOT’s promo of the day. So get Leech now and save 48% — this offer is only valid today.

We’ve hinted at this before, and now it’s here: Check out Leech, our new download manager.

Leech gives you complete control over your downloads. You can queue, pause and resume downloads, download from password-protected servers and store your passwords in your system-wide, secure keychain. And you won’t have to worry about downloads that were disrupted by a crashing browser ever again.

Have a look at Leech’s shiny new product page for more info.