Have you ever wanted to save your own copy of a video you’ve seen on YouTube, Google Video, or other online video sharing service. Well, the new Firefox extension VideoDownloader allows you to do just that. One installed a new icon appears in your status bar.
When you reach a page with one of those embedded videos just click on the icon and a new window will appear giving you links the all the videos on the page.
To save any of them, just right-click and use the save as function of your browser. As the window will remind you, to view the video you will need to change the file’s extension post downloading and have the FLV Player installed.
At the time of this posting there were four videos on this page. Feel free to try it out here.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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